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? No Petitioner named Record of the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds successfully claiming...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/234/11697

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Record of the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds successfully claiming... dating from [1326] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/234/11697
Date
[1326]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Record of the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds successfully claiming jurisdiction in a case in Common Pleas in 8 Edward II between Amabilla, Emma, Sarah and Alice, daughters of Hugh le Taverner, and William de Merlawe, concerning a messuage in the susburb of Bury St Edmunds, and in two previous cases.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Westminster
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
People mentioned
William de Bereford, Chief Justice of Common Pleas
Edward [II], King of England
Amabilla [le Taverner], daughter of Hugh le Taverner
Hugh le Taverner
Emma [le Taverner], daughter of Hugh le Taverner
Sarah [le Taverner], daughter of Hugh le Taverner
Alice [le Taverner], daughter of Hugh le Taverner
Henry de Lyvermere, attorney of the daughters of Hugh le Taverner
William de Merlawe
Edmund de Caldecotes (Caldecote), attorney of William de Merlawe
the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds
bailiffs of the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds
Edward [I], King of England
Ralph de Hengham, Chief Justice of Common Pleas
Robert de Brandon, merchant
brother Robert de Cheventon
Richard le Messer
William le Chaloner of Bury St Edmunds.
Note
The record is of a case held at Westminster a month after Easter, 8 Edward II (1315), but it was produced in response to a writ dated 6 March, 19 Edward II (1326) (SC 8/234/11696).
Related material

For evidence produced as a result of this writ, see SC 8/234/11699

For a writ asking William de Bereford for evidence on this matter, see SC 8/234/11696

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

For an inquisition into whether the Abbot has had cognisance of these pleas, see SC 8/234/11693

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

Held by
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/C9335256/

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