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William Bramley, Abbot of Rievaulx. Bramley William John, Archbishop of York, Chancellor....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/306/15287
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This record is about the William Bramley, Abbot of Rievaulx. Bramley William John, Archbishop of York, Chancellor.... dating from [c. 1426] 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 8/306/15287
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1426]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Bramley, Abbot of Rievaulx.
- Name(s)
- Bramley, William
- Addressees
- John, Archbishop of York, Chancellor.
- Occupation
- Abbot of Rievaulx
- Nature of request
- Bramley requests remedy because whereas it was announced at the Parliament at Leicester by William, abbot of Beaulieu that Bramley had been restored as abbot of Rievaulx, but determined at the same Parliament that neither he nor Burton, who usurped possession of the abbey, should occupy the same while their case was pending in the Court of Rome, yet on 22 March last Bramley, on his way to York, had stopped outside Doncaster at sunset when Burton and his armed companions would have killed him if Greystoke had not intervened, and Burton then entered into Rievaulx abbey, contrary to the decision made in parliament.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Rievaulx, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- York
- Leicester, [Leicestershire]
- Belliloci Regis (Beaulieu), [Southampton]
- Rome, [Italy]
- Doncaster, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- John [Kemp], Archbishop of York, Chancellor
- William, Abbot of Beaulieu
- Henry Burton
- [John de Greystoke], Baron de Graystok (Greystoke).
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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)
- Latin
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429 , (Public Record Office, 1901), p.300 (1325 commission to enquire into Burton and his companions' theft of Rievaulx abbey's goods, jewels and common seal and to restore the same and to enquire into and arrest several monks wandering the country at their pleasure)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518342/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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