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Abbot of Tintern. King and council in parliament. Abbot of Tintern The Abbot of Tintern...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/143/7136
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This record is about the Abbot of Tintern. King and council in parliament. Abbot of Tintern The Abbot of Tintern... dating from [1380] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/143/7136
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1380]
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Description (What the record is about)
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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 was appointed collector of the tenth lately granted to Edward III in the diocese of Llandaff, 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
- Because it has been found in on record the Exchequer that the petitioner has previously been discharged in the Exchequer of the levy and collection of the tenths granted for the same abbeys, when he was collector, because of exemption and for the other reasons mentioned above, it is agreed that he is to have a similar discharge now for the sums mentioned from the three abbeys, of the King's grace, for the same reasons, and he is to have a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to discharge him as before, charging the Abbeys of Margam, Llantarnam and Neath, each with the sum due from it for the aforesaid triennial tenth.
- 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
- the Bishop of Llandaff
- Abbot of Llantarnam
- [Edmund de Mortimer], Earl of March
- Abbot of Margam
- [Elizabeth le Despenser], Lady Despenser
- Abbot of Neath.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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 8/143/7124, not of SC 8/143/7126, as Petitions Relating to Wales pp.240-1 suggests.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A near-duplicate of this petition, without endorsement, is SC 8/143/7124
A related petition is SC 8/144/7160
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.240-1 (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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209317/
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