John de Rutherwyk, Abbot of Chertsey. de Rutherwyk John King and council. Abbot of...

Petitioners

John de Rutherwyk, Abbot of Chertsey.

Name(s)

de Rutherwyk, John

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Abbot of Chertsey

Nature of request

The Abbot of Chertsey states that he and his predecessors since before the Lateran council have always had a tithe of all animals domestic and wild, and of the agistment of herbage and pannage in the park of Windsor, but that in the third year of the present King's reign, William le Mareschal, then constable and keeper of the park, withheld the tithe of foals and all other things, and delivered it to the Abbot of Waltham who has no right to it; and this has continued since then. He has sued from parliament to parliament, but has never had an answer; and he is still charged with hay for the foals and other animals as he was by King Henry. He asks that he might either have his tithes back, or be discharged from this provision of hay.

Nature of endorsement

[This endorsement is badly faded and the beginnings and ends of lines are missing] [Coram rege et] magno consilio.. . . in Chancery and the Chancellor . . . and the keeper of the King's park, and having heard . . . both for the King and for the party, and having called . . . the justices and others of the King's council justice is to be done . . . the business comes into a plea, through which it is fitting that . . . then the said petition with all the . . . the King in his bench, and justice is to be done there.

Places mentioned

Chertsey, [Surrey]

Windsor, [Berkshire]

Waltham, [Essex].

People mentioned

William le Mareschal

Abbot of Waltham

Henry, King of England.

For a related petition see SC 8/259/12937