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Abbot of Crowland. [None specified]. Abbot of Crowland [The document is badly damaged...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/333/E1010

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This record is about the Abbot of Crowland. [None specified]. Abbot of Crowland [The document is badly damaged... dating from [1375-1376] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/333/E1010
Date
[1375-1376]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Crowland.
Addressees
[None specified].
Occupation
Abbot of Crowland
Nature of request
[The document is badly damaged which most of the bottom third either being missing or largely illegible, so that the full sense is not recoverable].The abbot states that he is presented for making weirs and digging in the marsh of Deeping.[Reciting in part or in full previous grants from King Stephen onwards with details of bounds].
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Crowland, [Lincolnshire]
Deeping, [Lincolnshire]
River Welland, [Lincolnshire]
Langtoft, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
[Edward of Woodstock], Prince [of Wales].
Note
The petition is dated to 1375-1376 as it comes from an original file of petitions addressed to the Black Prince or his council dating to those years.
Related material

For the presentments made against the abbot see SC 8/333/E1027

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/C9683133/

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