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

Petitioners

Abbot of Tintern.

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Abbot of Tintern

Nature of request

The Abbot of Tintern states that in the King's father's thirtieth year, Roger Bygot, Earl of Norfolk, gave his manor of Acle to the Abbot of Tintern, in pure and perpetual alms. And then in his thirty-third year the late King pardoned the Earl all manner of debts, both his own and those of his ancestors. Nevertheless the Abbot is being distrained by a summons of the Exchequer for the debts of the Earl, and asks that the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer might be ordered to discharge him.

Nature of endorsement

When the rolls of Chancery have been examined, if the charter of confirmation of the King's father and the same King's charter of pardon of debts, as contained in the petition, are found, the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are to be ordered not to molest the said Abbot by demanding any debt of the said Earl from the time before date of the aforesaid charter of pardon.

Places mentioned

Tintern, [Monmouthshire, Wales]

Acle, Norfolk.

People mentioned

Roger Bygot (Bigod), Earl of Norfolk

Edward [I], King of England

Eggemere.

For transcript, see no.86 of PRO 31/7/98

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.242 (calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. III, Edw I and Edw II, 1300-1326, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.31 (inspeximus and confirmation of the charter by which Roger Bygot gave Acle to the Abbot of Tintern)