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Abbot of Leicester. King and Council. Abbot of Leicester The Abbot of Leicester requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/310/15482

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Reference
SC 8/310/15482
Date
[1318]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Leicester.
Addressees
King and Council.
Occupation
Abbot of Leicester
Nature of request
The Abbot of Leicester requests remedy against the Earl Marshal and the King's Chamberlain, who have made demands upon his house contrary to the provisions made by the king's father in the second Statute of Westminster.
Nature of endorsement
Order the Marshal and the Chamberlain that nothing is to be levied from the abbot except as is contained in the second Statute of Westminster.
Places mentioned
Leicester, [Leicestershire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
[Thomas of Brotherton], Earl Marshal
King's Chamberlain
[Edward I, King of England].
Note
A summary of this petition, and a response identical to that noted here, appears on the roll of the parliament of October 1318.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.14 (summary of petition and response on parliament roll)
  • 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), Parliament of October 1318, no.69 (summary of petition and response on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682492/

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