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Proctor of the Abbot and Convent of Marmoutier. King and Council. Proctor of the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/125/6203

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This record is about the Proctor of the Abbot and Convent of Marmoutier. King and Council. Proctor of the... dating from [1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/125/6203
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Proctor of the Abbot and Convent of Marmoutier.
Addressees
King and Council.
Occupation
Proctor of the Abbot and Convent of Marmoutier
Nature of request
The proctor of the Abbot and Convent of Marmoutier requests that the abbey be restored to lands on Guernsey which have been taken into the King's hands by Henry de Guldeforde and his colleagues, justices itinerant, because the abbot did not attend the last eyre in person. He states that the abbot and convent are ready to stand to law according to the law and customs of the isle.
Nature of endorsement
The justices record that William le Jeofne and others complained of the said abbot in their eyre, where, according to the custom of the country, no one ought answer by proctor; and so before the King.Let him sue a writ to bring the record before the King, and justice is to be done there.Coram Rege.
Places mentioned
Marmoutier, [Touraine, France]
Guernsey, [Channel Islands].
People mentioned
Abbot of Marmoutier
Henry de Guldeforde (Guildford), justice
William le Jeofne.
Note
Dated by PROME to the Lent parliament of 1305.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5423
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.53 (edition of petition, with response on parliament roll)
  • 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), Lent 1305 Channel Islands membrane, appendix, no.14 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208376/

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