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Prior and Convent of St Frideswide's, Oxford. King and Council. The Prior and Convent...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/310/15455

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Reference
SC 8/310/15455
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and Convent of St Frideswide's, Oxford.
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
The Prior and Convent of St Frideswide's, Oxford, request the restoration of certain tithes in the churches of Oakley and Brill in the forest of Bernwood, of which they are parsons. They state that Mautravers, lately Warden of the Forest, sold Southboys, of which they had the right to the tithes, and although they have sued Mautravers, he has done nothing.
Nature of endorsement
Order the Warden of the Forest to pay the tithes [...] as were paid in the times of his progenitors.
Places mentioned
Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
Acle (Oakley), [Buckinghamshire]
Brehull (Brill), [Buckinghamshire]
Bernwood Forest, [Buckinghamshire]
Southboys [unidentified], [Buckinghamshire].
People mentioned
John Mautravers (Maltravers), Warden of the Forest.
Note
Dated to 1330 in Rot. Parl., vol. II, p.50. 'Southboys' is presumably a 'southern wood', but Bernwood Forest has now all but disappeared, and the location cannot be identified.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.131 (no.80) (translation of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.50b (full edition of petition)
  • 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.31-51, no.80 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682465/

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