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Abbot of Notley. King and council. Abbot of Notley [This petition is damaged.]The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/261/13019

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This record is about the Abbot of Notley. King and council. Abbot of Notley [This petition is damaged.]The... dating from [1334-1335] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/261/13019
Date
[1334-1335]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Notley.
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Abbot of Notley
Nature of request
[This petition is damaged.]The Abbot of Notley makes two requests:1) He states that he and his predecessors have been seized of two cartloads of firewood from the forest of Bernwood, of the grant of the King's progenitors, until the King sent his letter under the targe to the Keeper of the Forest to cease delivery of this firewood. The Abbot asks that he might have the firewood as before, according to the grant made to him.2) He states that he held that chapel and hermitage of Finmere in Buckinghamshire in free alms, of the gift of Roland Malet, until the King ordered his escheator to take it into his hand, without giving a reason. He asks that he might be restored to possession.
Nature of endorsement
With regard to the first point of this petition: he is to have a writ in Chancery to the Keeper of the Forest to allow them to have firewood there as they should have by reason and by virtue of their charters, and as they and their predecessors have had and used since the grant made to them.With regard to the other point: they are to have a writ to the Escheator to explain the reason why he has seized the chapel into the King's hand.
Places mentioned
Notley, [Buckinghamshire]
Bernwood Forest, [Buckinghamshire]
Finmere, [Oxfordshire].
People mentioned
Roland Malet.
Note
Ascribed in Rot. Parl. vol. II pp.83b-84a (no. 46) as belonging to 8 Edward III (25 January 1334-24 January 1335).
Related material

For a related petition, see SC 8/261/13022

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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.83b-84a (no.46) (full edition of later copy of original petition and related inspeximus and confirmation of charters)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9516963/

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