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Abbot of Peterborough. King and Council. Abbot of Peterborough [This petition is...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/201/10032

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SC 8/201/10032
Date
[1318]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Peterborough.
Addressees
King and Council.
Occupation
Abbot of Peterborough
Nature of request
[This petition is badly faded and partly illegible] The Abbot of Peterborough states that the manors of Torpel and Upton are held of him by the homage and service of four knights' fees and other services amounting to £4 annually, and by suit of his court of Castor, but that these services have been withdrawn since the manors came into the King's hand. He also states that the Bailiffs of the manors will not allow him the franchises he should have in his eight hundreds, although these manors are within these hundreds. He requests a remedy. He also asks that he might have chattels of felons and fugitives according to his charter.
Nature of endorsement
[The endorsement is badly faded and largely illegible] Petition to Parliament.With regard to the services, the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are to be ordered by a writ of the great seal to instruct themselves by the rolls and memoranda of the Exchequer, or in any other legitimate way, as to whether the same services are owed as the petition claims etc., or not, and they are to inform the King of what they have found in Chancery; and from there they are to sue for further justice to be done to them according to the nature of the business.With regard to their liberties, they are to show the charters which the petition claims they have in Chancery, and they are to have a writ in due form on the same charters and for all the liberties contained in the same charters.
Places mentioned
Peterborough, [Northamptonshire]
Torpel, Northamptonshire
Upton, Northamptonshire
Castor, [Northamptonshire].
Note
Datable to 1318 from the enrolment of the petition on the parliament roll for October 1318 (Docs. Illus. English History p.30).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.30 (summary of petition and responses on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333588/

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