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Abbot of Fecamp. King and council. Abbot of Fecamp The abbot requests remedy as he...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E217

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Reference
SC 8/316/E217
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Fecamp.
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Abbot of Fecamp
Nature of request
The abbot requests remedy as he was granted the manor of Slaughter with the hundred of Salmonsbury by King Henry in exchange for Winchelsea and Rye, and the vill of Lower Swell answered the hundred in all things until the earl of Cornwall purchased it and by his power withdrew it from that hundred and purchased view and other liberties and made the vill answerable to the king's hundred of Kiftsgate where it remains in prejudice of the abbot.
Nature of endorsement
It is attested that there was a plea between the abbot of Fecamp and the abbot of Hailes, tenant of the manor at the Exchequer and [...]. Therefore nothing at present etc.
Places mentioned
Upper Slaughter, [Gloucestershire]
Salmonsbury hundred, [Gloucestershire]
Winchelsea, [Sussex]
Rye, [Sussex]
Lower Swell, [Gloucestershire]
Kiftsgate hundred, [Gloucestershire]
Fecamp, [Normandy, France]
Hailes, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
Henry III, King of England
Richard de Cornewayle (Cornwall), earl of Cornwall
Abbot of Hale.
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
Related material

For a later petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/111/5539

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.2 (summary of this file)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529269/

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