Abbot of Ramsey. King and council. Abbot of Ramsey The Abbot of Ramsey states that...

Petitioners

Abbot of Ramsey.

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Abbot of Ramsey

Nature of request

The Abbot of Ramsey states that although he and his predecessors had always had the amercements of their men allowed at the Exchequer, by charters of the King's progenitors, the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are now refusing to allow him the amercements of his mainpernors, who are all his men, in a suit against Roger le Mareschal. He requests a remedy.

Nature of endorsement

He is to have a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, formed on his charter, to have the amercements of his men, according to the purport of his charter, and they are to allow these amercements to the Abbot, according to what has been done to him and his predecessors, according to justice and reason.

Places mentioned

Ramsey, [Huntingdonshire]

Bedfordshire.

People mentioned

Roger le Mareschal (Marshal)

Thomas Joye

Robert Katelyn (Catelyne)

John [Katelyn (Catelyne)]

Thomas Terry.

For a duplicate petition, with a different endorsement and a fuller list of names of mainpernors, see SC 8/69/3446

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.80a (no.30) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. II, pp.73-89, no.30 (summary of references)