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Abbot and convent of St Peter, Gloucester. King and council. The abbot and convent...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/114/5692

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This record is about the Abbot and convent of St Peter, Gloucester. King and council. The abbot and convent... dating from [? c. 1322] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/114/5692
Date
[? c. 1322]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and convent of St Peter, Gloucester.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The abbot and convent request remedy, since whereas they were granted the course of the Fulbrook by the king's progenitors, and were seised until the people of the town came and made a ditch and stopped the course to their disinheritance.1) Copy of a grant of Henry II addressed to the sheriff, ministers and burgesses of Gloucester, granting to the abbot and convent the river Fulbrook.2) Copy of a writ of Stephen that the abbot and convent should have the river which runs by the abbey.3) Extract of a confirmation by Henry II.
Nature of endorsement
They should go into Chancery and have a writ in this case according to the common law.
Places mentioned
River Fulbrook, [Gloucestershire]
Gloucester, [Gloucestershire]
Worcester, [Worcestershire]
Oxford, [Oxfordshire].
People mentioned
Henry II, King of England
Stephen, King of England
Henry III, King of England.
Note
The petition is dated speculatively to? c. 1322 on the basis of the guard note. The date is presumably ascribed in association with SC 8/114/5690. The first charter of Henry II can be dated to 1155-1172, and the second to c. 18 May 1175 (Vincent, Henry II, no.1164 and no.1173).
Related material

For transcript, see no.82 of PRO 31/7/102

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3854
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Historical Notes on the Use of the Great Seal of England, Sir Henry C. Maxwell-Lyte, (, 1926), no.347 (edition of second document)
  • The Acta of Henry II, N. Vincent, no.1164 (edition of first charter of Henry II) & no. 1173 (fuller edition of confirmation of Henry III)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150365/

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