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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot of Bury St Edmunds. Chancellor. Abbot of Bury St Edmunds The abbot of Bury...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/303/15144
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This record is about the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds. Chancellor. Abbot of Bury St Edmunds The abbot of Bury... dating from [? 1341] 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 8/303/15144
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1341]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of Bury St Edmunds.
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Occupation
- Abbot of Bury St Edmunds
- Nature of request
- The abbot of Bury St Edmunds requests that whereas Henry I granted, and the current King confirmed, that no secular person or minister of the King should interfere in religious business, Hemegrave and Cambridge were assigned to enquire into a false allegation made against the abbot, by which inquisition writs were issued to cause the abbot to come before the King to answer in the matter, that no secular person interfere with the said franchise but only the abbot and his ministers and that the said writs be repealed.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk].
- People mentioned
- Henry I, King of England
- [...] de Hemegrave
- John de Cantebr' (Cambridge).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition may date to 1341 when the king's justices were directed to hold a session at Bury St. Edmunds in 1341, for hearing and determining complaints as to oppressions by ministers in the county of Suffolk, and the abbey protested that this was an infringement of their chartered rights against the holding of any secular courts in the town (VCH Suffolk, vol. II, pp. 56-72).
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9528891/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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