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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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This record is about the Nuns of Godstow. King and council. The nuns of Godstow request that they may have... dating from [1304-1306] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/264/13175
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1304-1306]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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.
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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)
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- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517121/
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