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

Catalogue reference: SC 8/343/16167

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This record is about the Abbot of Flaxley. [None specified]. Abbot of Flaxley [The document is badly damaged,... dating from [c. 1290-c. 1310] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/343/16167
Date
[c. 1290-c. 1310]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Flaxley.
Addressees
[None specified].
Occupation
Abbot of Flaxley
Nature of request
[The document is badly damaged, and the full sense is not clear].The abbot complains of the actions of the constable and others who came to Flaxley and the abbot's wood there and took his beasts pastured in the forest against their charters from the king and their liberties, and took them to the castle. He requests an order to the justice of the forest [...].1)
Nature of endorsement
[...] justice of the forest [...] thence was ordered.2) [Sense not clear].
Places mentioned
Flaxley, Gloucestershire
St Briavels, [Gloucestershire]
Forest of Dean, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
Constable of St Briavels
William Adthewy
Richard Dygun.
Note
The document is speculatively dated to c. 1290-c. 1310 on the basis of the hand.
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/313/E77

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Chancery Unsorted Miscellanea (transferred 30 Oct. 1924).
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736648/

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