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Nuns of Godstow. King and council. The nuns of Godstow request that they may have...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/264/13175

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Reference
SC 8/264/13175
Date
[1304-1306]
Description
Petitioners
Nuns of Godstow.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The nuns of Godstow request that they may have remedy because they were enfeoffed by Henry III of a place called 'Burgwele' near Woodstock, from which London disseised them. They attested an assize of novel disseisin before Enfield and his companions, but London would not answer for this without the King's authority as he had entered into the manor of Bladon, to which this wood belonged, on behalf of the King, so that the assize was delayed.
Nature of endorsement
[On face, various notes] John de London disseised. Abbess Mabel Vafre. 40 acres of wood. Matilda de Upton. Oxfordshire. In Bladon. John le Wodeward. William le Messer. William le Heyward.
Places mentioned
Godstow, [Oxfordshire]
Woodstock, [Oxfordshire]
Bladon, [Oxfordshire]
Oxfordshire.
People mentioned
Henry [III], King of England
John de Loundres (London)
Henry de Enefeud (Enfield), justice
John le Wodeward
William le Messer
William le Heyward
Mabel Wafre, Abbess [of Godstow]
Maud de Upton, [Abbess of Godstow].
Note
Dated on the guard to 1304-6, with reference to CCR 1302-7, p. 389, a 1306 order to deliver to the abbess and nuns of Godstow the wood of Burghwele, and to Oxford Petitions, p. 97.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.389-90 (1306 order to deliver to abbess and nuns of Godstow the wood of Burghwele)
  • Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.97 (no.15) (abstract of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517121/

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