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Abbot and Convent of Croyland (Crowland). King and Council The petitioners seek an...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/103/5124

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Reference
SC 8/103/5124
Date
[c. 1322-c. 1327]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and Convent of Croyland (Crowland).
Addressees
King and Council
Nature of request
The petitioners seek an enquiry into whether Thomas of Lancaster or any of his ancestors were ever the chief lords of their fee, and the prevention of the disinheritance of the petitioners, whose church has contained the body of St Guthlac from its foundation. They state that they bought the advowson of Wigtoft Church by charter and licence of the king, and by charter and agreement of the chief lord of the fee. Then came Thomas of Lancaster as chief lord of the fee and brought a writ of quare impedit against them for the said advowson, and by the wild menaces of his bailiffs at the inquest before the ordinary, before the justices of the bench and to their attorney, they could not defend [the suit], and the church was thus acquired by the power and lordship of Lancaster and not by any right.
Nature of endorsement
Let them come into chancery and fully exhibit their rights and reasons and let them inspect the records there, and on this let the king be informed by the chancellor.Coram Rege.
Places mentioned
Croyland (Crowland), [Lincolnshire]
Wigtoft, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
[Simon de Luffenham], Abbot of Croyland (Crowland)
Thomas [Plantagenet], Earl of Lancaster.
Note
The petition appears to date between the fall of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and the end of the reign of Edward II.
Related material

For another petition from the same house, see SC 8/83/4139

For a related petition on the same matter see SC 8/100/4952

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2118
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.79 (royal presentation to Wigtoft church)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149694/

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