Abbess and convent of Preaux. King. The abbess and convent of Preaux ask that the...

Petitioners

Abbess and convent of Preaux.

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The abbess and convent of Preaux ask that the Sheriff of Hampshire might be ordered to pay them an alms of 100s. that they used to receive before the war, together with the arrears since the peace.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.The treasurer and barons are to be ordered by a writ of Chancery to have that alms paid to the abbess and convent from the time that peace was concluded between the kings, as they were accustomed to have it before war broke out etc.

Places mentioned

Preaux, [Normandy, France]

Southampton, Hampshire.

For a transcript, see p.117 of PRO 31/7/93

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.304 (instructions to the treasurer and barons to pay the alms, if they can establish that the abbess and convent used to receive it)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.465b-466a (no.28) (full edition of original 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), 1305, autumn parliament, appendix, evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery enrolments and elsewhere, no.37 (calendar of relevant Close Roll entry and related documents)