Catalogue description Petitioners: Abbot and convent of Abingdon. Addressees: King and lords of...

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Details of SC 8/21/1042
Reference: SC 8/21/1042
Description:
Petitioners: Abbot and convent of Abingdon.
Addressees: King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request: The Abbot and convent of Abingdon state that they have always had the right to all burials in the villages of Abingdon, Drayton, Radley and others, until the vicar of the church of St Helen, Abingdon, by a papal bull, without permission from them or the king, created a cemetery on their land around his church. The Abbot and convent, understanding this to be alienation in mortmain, entered this land; but the king's escheator, for the same reason, seized the land into the king's hand, expelling them. They request that the office by reason of which the escheator did this be brought before the king in the present parliament, and that justice and reason be done to the abbot and convent.
Nature of endorsement: This petition is to be sent to Chancery, and the Chancellor, by authority of parliament, is to have the parties appear before him in Chancery, and there, when the matter contained in this petition has been examined, and the arguments of the parties heard, what justice and reason and good faith and good conscience demand is to be done, by authority of parliament.
Places mentioned: Abingdon, [Berkshire]; Drayton, [Berkshire]; Radley, [Berkshire].
People mentioned: The vicar of the church of St Helen, Abingdon.
Note: Rot. Parl. vol. III::p.297a (no. 1) assigns this petition to the parliament held at Westminster in November 1391. These identifications are not always reliable, but in this case, the endorsement is worded identically to that of SC 8/21/1041A, which was presented at that parliament, making it likely that this petition too was from that year.
Date: [1391]
Related material:

For a related petition from the same petitioners is SC 8/88/4392
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 115
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.297a (no.1) (full edition of original petition)

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