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Abbot of Fecamp. King and council. Abbot of Fecamp [Petition in 4 parts].1) The abbot...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/112/5565

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Reference
SC 8/112/5565
Date
[1329]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Fecamp.
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Abbot of Fecamp
Nature of request
[Petition in 4 parts].1) The abbot requests remedy as Barton has sued a writ of arrest against him and recovered a sum in Chancery.2) The abbot requests remedy as the people of Winchelsea were ordered to make ditches around their town and took land valued at 60s. of rent per annum as appears by an inquest of the keeper of the Cinque Ports returned into Chancery.3) The abbot requests that they be granted that they are able to make general attorneys to sue and defend the abbey's interests as the abbot cannot reside in England.4) The abbot requests that a debt owed by them be allowed against a debt owed to them for money lent by the abbot's predecessor to the king's grandfather and that the sheriff of Sussex be ordered to cease his demands on the abbot.
Nature of endorsement
[Notes of process, mostly illegible.]
Places mentioned
Fecamp, [Normandy, France]
Northampton, [Northamptonshire]
Winchelsea, [Sussex]
Cinque Ports.
People mentioned
John de Barton
People of the town of Winchelsea
Thomas de Sandwiche (Sandwich), steward
Brother Peter Marie
Brother Stephen Power.
Note
The petition dates to 1329 as the order for the arrest of the abbot's goods was revoked and the sheriff of Sussex ordered to restore the goods of the abbot or their value on 18 February 1329 (CCR 1327-30, pp.429-30). CCR 1327-30 p.286, dated 18 May 1328, is in response to the earlier SC 8/258/12888.
Related material

For a petition related to the first petition here, see SC 8/258/12888

For transcript, see no.62 of PRO 31/7/105

For a related writ, see SC 8/258/12890B

For a duplicate of that petition, differently endorsed, see SC 8/18/880

For a related petition from John de Barton, see SC 8/18/879

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3541
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.429-30 (revocation of the arrest and order for the delivery of the abbot's goods) & p.286 (revocation of the arrest in response to an earlier petition)
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