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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 (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/316/E236
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a contemporary petition from the same petitioner submitted at the same parliament, see SC 8/316/E217
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529288/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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