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

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Details of SC 8/88/4392
Reference: SC 8/88/4392
Description:
Petitioners: Abbot and convent of Abingdon.
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: The Abbot and convent of Abingdon state that the commons of Abingdon and the vicar of the church of St Helen there have sued in the court of Rome to have a cemetery on certain land held of the Abbot in Abingdon, rather than burying their dead in the Abbey's cemetery as they should, and that the commons of the town have made conspiracies and alliances amongst themselves, and have threatened those wishing burial in the Abbey's cemetery. They request a remedy, to put down such riotous behaviour, to maintain the Abbot and convent in their rights, and to prevent temporal land becoming spiritual land.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Abingdon, [Berkshire]; Drayton, [Berkshire]; Radley, [Berkshire].
People mentioned: The commons of Abingdon; the vicar of the church of St Helen, Abingdon; Edward [III], King of England.
Note: The related SC 8/21/1042 can be assigned fairly reliably to the parliament held at Westminster in November 1391. This petition would seem to date from around the same time, possibly slightly earlier, as it does not mention the land being seized into the King's hand. CPR 1388-92 p.478, too, dated 5 August 1391, would seem to suggest a slightly earlier date for this petition.
Date: [c. 1391]
Related material:

For a related petition from the same petitioners is SC 8/21/1042

For transcript, see no.64 of PRO 31/7/111
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 116
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.478 (licence for the Abbot and convent of Abingdon to send two proctors to the Roman court, as they are impleaded there in cases affecting the right of their church)

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 related petition)

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