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Petitioners

Abbot of Tintern.

Addressees

King and council in parliament.

Occupation

Abbot of Tintern

Nature of request

The Abbot of Tintern states that he has been appointed collector of the tenths in the diocese of Llandaff on all occasions when tenths were granted by the clergy in the last seven years and more, and has done his utmost to collect them from those who should pay, using both the censures of Holy Church and other means, but that these people are rebels and, despite excommunication, as is on record in Chancery, refuse to pay any money. The Abbot has been distrained to render account in the Exchequer, and he and his house are being impoverished by distraints. In consideration of this, the King in his last parliament granted him a respite until the present parliament, and said that in the meantime he would ordain a remedy for the levying of the money. He asks that a remedy for the levying of these sums might be ordained in the present parliament, and that he might be discharged both of these sums and of the levying of them.

Nature of endorsement

The King, of his special grace, and with the assent of his council in the present parliament, has granted the supplicant respite from the sums demanded of him until the next parliament. And for the levying of the said sums in the meantime, it is agreed that the Bishop is to give the names of those who have been excommunicated to the lords of the franchises in which they are living, or have possessions or benefices, together with the sums which they owe the King. And letters of the privy seal are to be issued, both to the Bishop to do this, and to the said lords to levy the aforesaid sums to the King's use.

Places mentioned

Tintern, [Monmouthshire], Wales

Llandaff diocese.

A related petition is SC 8/217/10839

For transcript, see no.115 of PRO 31/7/111

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.240 (brief calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1392-1396, (Public Record Office, 1925), p.402 (writ of supersedeas until the next parliament for the petitioner in this matter)