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Abbot and convent of St Peter, Gloucester. King. [Petition in 2 parts].1) The abbot...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/113/5606

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This record is about the Abbot and convent of St Peter, Gloucester. King. [Petition in 2 parts].1) The abbot... dating from [1324] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/113/5606
Date
[1324]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and convent of St Peter, Gloucester.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[Petition in 2 parts].1) The abbot and convent request that they be granted that their woods of Bridwode and Hopemaloysel be taken out of the assize of the Forest, and take them out of the regard of verderers and foresters as they have rights in the woods.2) The abbot and convent request that they be granted that they be able to appropriate from their spiritualities or temporalities of a sum that pleases the king as they have suffered great damage from the contrariants when they resided there.1)
Nature of endorsement
Concerning the first point, he should come into Chancery.2) Concerning the second point the king will take advice.3) Coram domino rege.
Places mentioned
Gloucester, [Gloucestershire]
Bridwode [unidentified]
Hopemaloysel (Hope Mansell), [Herefordshire].
People mentioned
Aymer de Valence, keeper of the Forest.
Note
The petition dates to 1324 as the keeper of the Forest was ordered to desist from hindering the abbot in his rights in the woods if the abbot's predecessors had enjoyed such rights (CCR 1323-7, p.70). It is not clear how this petition relates to SC 8/112/5600.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioners relating to the first part of this petition see SC 8/112/5600

For transcript, see no.48 of PRO 31/7/98

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3704
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.70 (order to the keeper of the Forest to desist from hindering the abbot of his rights in the woods if his predecessors enjoyed such rights)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150273/

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