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Abbot of Fecamp. King. Abbot of Fecamp [The petition is cut from a longer list of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E236

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This record is about the Abbot of Fecamp. King. Abbot of Fecamp [The petition is cut from a longer list of... dating from [1302] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/316/E236
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Fecamp.
Addressees
King.
Occupation
Abbot of Fecamp
Nature of request
[The petition is cut from a longer list of petitions].The abbot requests that he be granted that he is able to appoint at his will a general attorney for three or four years because of the peril of his lands that are in the hand of the king.
Nature of endorsement
[On face:]He should go to the treasurer and make a fine.[On dorse, none].
Places mentioned
Fecamp, [Normandy].
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 contemporary petition from the same petitioner submitted at the same parliament, see SC 8/316/E217

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.63 (grant of protection to Brother Vigor de Fiscampo, keeper of the lands of the abbey) & p.126 (letters for the abbot nominating attorneys, he staying beyond seas)
  • 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/C9529288/

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