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Abbot of Bury St Edmunds. King. Abbot of Bury St Edmunds The Abbot of Bury St Edmunds...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/220/10984

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This record is about the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds. King. Abbot of Bury St Edmunds The Abbot of Bury St Edmunds... dating from [? c. 1290] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/220/10984
Date
[? c. 1290]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Bury St Edmunds.
Addressees
King.
Occupation
Abbot of Bury St Edmunds
Nature of request
The Abbot of Bury St Edmunds requests that their franchises be maintained and that the barons of the Exchequer be ordered to allow them their escheats.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk].
People mentioned
Barons of the Exchequer.
Note
Dated to? c. 1290 with reference to the document at SC 8/220/10985, to which it probably relates.
Related material

For a related document see SC 8/220/10985

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.48a (partial summary of related petition on parliament roll)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 1, item 41 (related entry regarding these escheats and amercements)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334543/

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