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Bishops and abbots who have lands and tenements in Jersey. King and council. The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/265/13241

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SC 8/265/13241
Date
[1304]
Description
Petitioners
Bishops and abbots who have lands and tenements in Jersey.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The bishops and abbots who have lands and tenements in Jersey request remedy since it has been the custom on the island from time of memory that whenever the bishops and abbots are summoned before the King's bailiff in the island they have 40 days after the summons before they are put in default and 10 days at the time of the assizes, yet in harvest-time when no plea ought to be held Gildeford, Cartret and Ditton put them in default from third day to third day, and took their possessions for the defaults, and wish them to make fine, even though nobody is held to make a fine who requires a judgment of the jurats of the King's court in the island.
Nature of endorsement
Because no proper answer can be given to this petition until the rolls of the preceding eyres have been seen, the rolls of the same eyres should be searched for the next parliament and justice shall then be done etc. Lesset who was the first justice named in that eyre should be written to.
Places mentioned
Jersey, [Channel Islands].
People mentioned
Henry de Gildeford (Guildford), justice
Renaud de Cartret (Carteret), justice
John de Dytenne (Ditton), justice
Robert de Le Set (Lesset), justice.
Note
Dated in Channel Islands Petitions to 1304.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), pp.16-17 (calendar of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.52 (response to petition on parliament roll, with edition of endorsements)
  • 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), Lent 1305 Channel Islands membrane, appendix no.13 (edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517188/

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