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Abbot of Bury St Edmunds. King. Abbot of Bury St Edmunds [The petition has suffered...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/177/8816

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This record is about the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds. King. Abbot of Bury St Edmunds [The petition has suffered... dating from [c. 1289] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/177/8816
Date
[c. 1289]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Bury St Edmunds.
Addressees
King.
Occupation
Abbot of Bury St Edmunds
Nature of request
[The petition has suffered some damage to the lower middle section so that the abbot's actual request is now difficult to recover].The abbot requests remedy as Crek, Berners and Beaumont before Roucestre and his companions, justices in eyre in Suffolk have demanded the manors of Semer and Groton with some exceptions by a writ of precipe against the abbot, and the justices do not wish to accept the abbot's response that he should not answer because the manors are held by the abbot of his barony in chief from the king as is shown by Domesday, and the use of the writ is against Magna Carta.[Transcript of writ of precipe to the abbot].
Nature of endorsement
Of ministers after [the king] crossed the sea.
Places mentioned
Suffolk
Semer, [Suffolk]
Groton, [Suffolk].
People mentioned
John de Crek
Ralph de Berners
Godfrey de Beaumont
[Saloman] de Roucestre, justice in eyre in Suffolk.
Note
The petition dates to c. 1289 as the response reveals this petition to be one of those submitted after Edward I's return from the continent in 1289 when complaints against royal officials were invited. The petition cannot be later than January 1291 when the matter seems to have been resolved (CPR 1281-92, p.414).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.414 (licence in mortmain for the petitioner to retain two parts of the manors, Crek and Berners having released their claims)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294684/

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