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| John Ripon, Abbot of Fountains. |
| Ripon, John |
| The commons of the present parliament. |
| Abbot of Fountains |
| John, Abbot of Fountains, accuses one Roger Frank, monk, who had intruded himself into the office of abbot, of making various indentures and bonds for large sums of money to various people, sealed with the common seal of the abbey, after John had been elected abbot, but before he had been put in possession, and (with accomplices) of stealing various chalices and precious objects, and also the common seal of the abbey, which they still withhold. He accuses Henry Hertlyngton and others of driving off various animals belonging to the abbey. He also says that to prevent him suing for a remedy Robert Frank, Oliver Frank, Roger's brother, with forty others, lay in wait for him at Welbeck to murder him, assaulting him and wounding several of his servants; and that through conspiracy, and because some of the malefactors have fled from one country to another, he cannot have remedy at common law. He asks the commons to ask the king that these deeds or bonds might not be binding on him or his successors, and that all the people he has named might be summoned before the justices of King's Bench at the octave of St John the Baptist, to receive what the law demands and to answer to him for the aforesaid trespasses and grievances; that they, and each of them, should find sufficient security to make restitution for the lost goods and the damages he has sustained, if they are convicted, and that due punishment should be ordained, on the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal, for all those who have aided and abetted them. |
| [On face:] Soit baille au roy (It is to be delivered to the king).[On dorse:] It seems to the king that the petitioner has sufficient remedy at common law. |
| Fountains, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Holme, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Otterburn, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Mitton, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Escheton (Eshton), [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Garsyngton (Grassington), [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Skipton, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Claghton (Claughton), [Lancashire]; Wyndescale (Winscales), [Cumberland]; Harewood, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Roundehawe (Roundhay), [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Craven, [West Riding of Yorkshire]; Welbek (Welbeck Park), [Nottinghamshire]; Yorkshire; Westmorland; Nottinghamshire. |
| Roger Frank, monk of Fountains; John Rothom, monk of Fountains; William Tunstall, monk of Fountains; William See, monk of Fountains; Henry Hertlyngton; Christopher de Moresby; John de Preston of Holme; William de Preston of Otterburn; Richard de Feelden of Mitton; Henry de Preston of [illegible]; John de Preston of Eshton; John Addyson of Grassington; William Benetson of Skipton; Edmund Jonson de Croft of Claghton; Thomas Forster of Winscales; William Frank; Thomas Marsshall (Marshal), servant of Robert Mauleverer; Richard Barbour of Harewood; Robert Frank; John Marsshall (Marshal) of Roundhay; Thomas Marsshall (Marshal) of Roundhay; Robert Preston; Thomas Preston, son of John de Preston of Craven; Robert Frank; Oliver Frank, brother of Roger Frank. |
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| Publication note: |
Calendar of Close Rolls, Hen V, vol. I, 1413-1419, (Public Record Office, 1929), pp.112-113 (memorandum concerning information laid in Chancery concerning the dispute between John de Ripon and Roger Frank) Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen V, vol. I, 1413-1416, (Public Record Office, 1910), pp.145, 147 (two enrolments of the commission of Fountains abbey and its possessions to the archbishop of York and bishop of Durham, as a result of the dispute between Roger Frank and John de Ripon over the abbacy) & p.180 (appointment of John de Ripon as abbot of Fountains) Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.28a (no.3) (full edition of original petition)
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