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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior of St Swithin's, Winchester. King and council. Prior of St Swithin's, Winchester...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/295/14707
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This record is about the Prior of St Swithin's, Winchester. King and council. Prior of St Swithin's, Winchester... dating from [1317] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/295/14707
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1317]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior of St Swithin's, Winchester.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prior of St Swithin's, Winchester
- Nature of request
- The Prior of St Swithin's, Winchester, states that, after the death of William Blundel, who held a messuage and five virgates of land in Avington of him in vileinage, he took this messuage and land into his hand as his vileinage. Much later he was impleaded in the king's court concerning them, although he is ready to aver that they have been held of him and his predecessors in this manner since time immemorial. His adversaries procured John Abel, the Escheator, to take an inquest of office into this. He held this inquest with enemies of his church and the very people who procured him, and without the Prior's knowledge; the inquest found that the Prior had appropriated these lands and tenements contrary to the form of the statute. The Escheator then seized the lands and tenements into the king's hand, and they are still seised, to his great harm. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- John Abel, lately escheator, is to be ordered to inform the king of the manner and cause of the taking etc. into the king's hand, if the complainant wishes; or he is to have a writ of novel disseisin against the aforesaid John.
- Places mentioned
- Winchester, [Hampshire]
- Avington, [Hampshire].
- People mentioned
- John Abel, Escheator South of the Trent.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.486 (order to the escheator not to intermeddle further with these lands)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.68 (inquisition into this matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735870/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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