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Abbot of Tintern. King and council. Abbot of Tintern The Abbot of Tintern states...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/143/7124

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Reference
SC 8/143/7124
Date
[1380]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Tintern.
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Abbot of Tintern
Nature of request
The Abbot of Tintern states that he was appointed collector of the tenth lately granted to Edward III in the diocese of Llandaff, and states that certain sums are in arrears from various abbots, which cannot be collected by censure of Holy Church because the abbeys are outside the jurisdiction of ordinaries, nor by the King's writ because they are in a region where the King's writ does not run. The King, at the request of the petitioner, has often written to these lords to have the monies collected, but nothing has been done, and the Abbot is being distrained in his lands and tenements in England for this money. He asks to be discharged of these sums, as he has been before in a similar case, to avoid the ruin of his house.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Tintern, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
Llandaff diocese
March of Wales
Llantarnam, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
Caerleon, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
Margam, [Glamorgan, Wales]
Glamorgan, [Wales]
Neath, [Glamorgan, Wales].
People mentioned
Edward [III], King of England
Bishop of Llandaff
Abbot of Llantarnam
[Edmund de Mortimer], Earl of March
Abbot of Margam
[Elizabeth le Despenser], Lady Despenser
Abbot of Neath.
Note
CCR 1377-81 pp.297-298 is dated 28 February 1380, and is clearly in response to this petition. This petition is a near-duplicate of SC 8/143/7136, not of SC 8/143/7126, as Petitions Relating to Wales p.239 suggests.
Related material

A near-duplicate of this petition, with an endorsement, is SC 8/143/7136

A related petition is SC 8/22/1100

For transcript, see no.94 of PRO 31/7/106

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.239 (brief calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), pp.297-298 (order to discharge the Abbot of these sums)
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