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? No Petitioner named Inquisition held on the Thursday following the close of Easter,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/234/11693

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Inquisition held on the Thursday following the close of Easter,... dating from 1326 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/234/11693
Date
1326
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Inquisition held on the Thursday following the close of Easter, 19 Edward II, finding that the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds and his predecessors have had cognisance of all pleas touching the Abbot and his men and tenants of Bury St Edmunds, and of all pleas arising in any way in Bury St Edmunds; and that it is not to the harm of the King or anyone else or to the diminution of the farm of the Sheriff of Suffolk if this cognisance is granted to the Abbot by charter.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Hennowe (Henhowe Heath), Suffolk
Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk].
People mentioned
John de Mutford
John Claver
William de Langham
Thomas de Wridewelle
William Kenne
Henry de Langham
Thomas de Ayssh
Nicholas de Prato (du Pre, Meadow)
Robert de Saxham
Richard de Manstone
William Mariot
David Scot
Robert atte Hel
Richard de Langham
Abbot of Bury St Edmunds.
Note
Inquisition held on the Thursday following the close of Easter, 19 Edward II (1326).
Related material

For a writ to the Chief Justice of Common Pleas asking for evidence on this matter, see SC 8/234/11696

For evidence produced as a result of this writ, see SC 8/234/11697

For the petition on which all these documents depend, see SC 8/234/11700

For letters patent to the justices ordering the holding of this inquisition, see SC 8/234/11695

For a writ asking for evidence of various liberties allowed to the Abbot in the Exchequer, see SC 8/234/11698

For a writ to the sheriff ordering the holding of this inquisition, see SC 8/234/11694

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335252/

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