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Abbot of Tewkesbury. King. Abbot of Tewkesbury The abbot requests that he be permitted...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/325/E707

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This record is about the Abbot of Tewkesbury. King. Abbot of Tewkesbury The abbot requests that he be permitted... dating from [c. 1295] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/325/E707
Date
[c. 1295]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Tewkesbury.
Addressees
King.
Occupation
Abbot of Tewkesbury
Nature of request
The abbot requests that he be permitted the tithes of hay given to his church and to the priory of St James, Bristol from the meadow of [their demesne] and men from their manor of Barton by Bristol as they have no meadow for tithes where they receive both major and minor tithes except tithes of hay.
Nature of endorsement
Before the treasurer and he will make the bailiff of the manor come and those in whose interest it is, and he is to enquire the reason why those parts are not tithed as other parts are, and he is to inform the king at another parliament.He is answered by the treasurer that because ... in the petition that they were never in possession of those tithes and they will still not have them except by the special grace of the king.
Places mentioned
Tewkesbury, [Gloucestershire]
Bristol
Bertone (Barton), [Gloucestershire].
Note
The petition is dated c. 1295 as the petition appears to be that referred to in SC 8/76/3788 which is dated to this date, and it seems unlikely that too much time had elapsed between them.
Related material

For a later petition by the same petitioner on the same matter probably referring back to this petition, see SC 8/76/3788

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/75/3730

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682701/

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