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Monks of Bindon. King and council. The monks of Bindon state that they have been...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/239/11943
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/239/11943
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Monks of Bindon.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The monks of Bindon state that they have been completely ruined by the machinations of the King's ministers and by a malevolent Abbot, John de Montagu, who has rightly been expelled. They ask that the gifts and grants made under their stolen common seal, between the feast of St Nicholas in the King's second year and the present, might be repealed, that they might be given some suitable remedy for their plundered goods, and that they might be discharged of liveries, pensions and robes for three years.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Bindon, [Dorset]
- Dorchester, [Dorset].
- People mentioned
- John de Montagu (Montague), Abbot of Bindon
- Hugh Courtenay
- Hugh Poynz.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to 1331 with reference to no.5074 of C 81/186, with which this petition was formerly enclosed.CPR 1330-4 p.89 is dated 22 March 1331, p.142 is dated 29 April 1331, p.63 is dated 23 January 1331 and p.131 is dated 16 February 1331.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a document with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see no.5074 of C 81/186
For another petition from this house, see SC 8/93/4613
For a related petition see SC 8/37/1829
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.89 (appointment of individuals to arrest Montagu, an apostate monk) & p.142 (writ of aid to individuals taking Montagu back to Bindon) pp.63, 131 (commissions of oyer and terminer into acts against the abbey)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335507/
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