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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot and convent of Westminster. King and council. The abbot and convent request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/318/E298
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This record is about the Abbot and convent of Westminster. King and council. The abbot and convent request... dating from [c. 1309] 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 8/318/E298
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1309]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of Westminster.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The abbot and convent request remedy and that they can be restored to part of a certain sum that they paid to the pope for the late king, and also of the rent from Droitwich for which the king gave them the land of Bayouse for the term of 13 years, the king having given this to Frysceland who has taken the goods and chattels of the abbot and convent found in that land.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Droitwich, [Worcestershire]
- Bayouse (Bayeux) honour, Lincolnshire.
- People mentioned
- Emerik de Frysceland (Frescobaldi).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1309 as the part of the lands referred to in the petition were in the hand of Frescobaldi by March 1309 when he was commanded not to make waste in those lands [CCR 1307-13, pp.104, 166].
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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 Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.26 (order to commit various lands including those mentioned in this petition to the petitioners to satisfy an outstanding debt)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), pp.104, 166 (order to Frescobaldi not to commit waste in the same lands in Lincolnshire)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529350/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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