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Abbess of Godstow. King. Abbess of Godstow The abbess requests that the king grant...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/114/5667

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This record is about the Abbess of Godstow. King. Abbess of Godstow The abbess requests that the king grant... dating from [1283] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/114/5667
Date
[1283]
Description
Petitioners
Abbess of Godstow.
Addressees
King.
Occupation
Abbess of Godstow
Nature of request
The abbess requests that the king grant a licence for Writtle to grant up to a carucate of land in Highworth and Blunsdon as the land is held from several lords but not from the king.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Highworth, [Wiltshire]
Blunsdon, [Wiltshire].
People mentioned
Roger de Wrytele (Writtle).
Note
The petition probably dates to the Michaelmas parliament of 1283, this petition being so assigned by PROME (1283, Michaelmas parliament, appendix, no.1).
Related material

For transcript, see p.38 of PRO 31/7/92

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3809
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), pp.96-7 (edition of petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 1283, Michaelmas parliament, appendix, no.1 (reference indicating that this petition is likely to come from this parliament)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150340/

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