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? No Petitioner named Writ of Edward II by petition of the abbess of Godstow ordering...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/280/13973B

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Reference
SC 8/280/13973B
Date
1315
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of Edward II by petition of the abbess of Godstow ordering the keeper of his stud-farm at Woodstock to pay the abbess the tithes due to her with the arrears of two years or to signify the reason why he will not. Given at Windsor on 10 May in the eighth year of his reign [1315].
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Woodstock, [Oxfordshire]
Godstow, [Oxfordshire].
People mentioned
Edward [II], King of England
keeper of the stud-farm at Woodstock
[Maud Upton], Abbess of Godstow.
Note
Dated internally to 10 April in the 8th year (of Edward II) (1315).
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/280/13973A

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517922/

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