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Abbot and convent of Bury St Edmunds. King and council. The abbot and convent of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/264/13192

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SC 8/264/13192
Date
[c. 1327]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and convent of Bury St Edmunds.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The abbot and convent of Bury St Edmunds request that whereas Berton and other evil men set fire to their abbey and nine of their manors, corn of 29 carucates of land and the stock belonging to the manors, of which trespass he was attainted and kept in the abbot's prison, from which he escaped, and then he and his company went to the abbot's manor of Chevington and seized all his treasure there and 35 horses, and brought them overseas where he detained them for 31 weeks, for which trespass he was outlawed by process made in London and Suffolk, and he has entered the company of powerful men who want him pardoned, that the King consider if someone who has done such things should be pardoned.
Nature of endorsement
Felons should be pardoned.
Places mentioned
Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk]
Chevington, [Suffolk]
London
Suffolk.
People mentioned
John de Berton, cordwainer, late alderman of Bury St Edmunds.
Note
Dated on the guard to c. 1327, with reference to CPR 1327-30, p. 217, a 1327 oyer and terminer concerning disturbances at the abbey of Bury St Edmunds, and to CIM 1307-49, p. 264 (no.1070), a 1329 inquisition into a theft from the treasury of Bury St Edmunds. Richard of Draughton was abbot of Bury St Edmunds from 1312 to 1335.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/45/2232

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.264 (no.1070) (1329 inquisition into a theft from the treasury of Bury St Edmunds)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.217 (oyer and terminer re disturbances at the abbey of Bury St Edmunds)
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