Catalogue description Petitioners: John Ripon, Abbot of Fountains. Name(s): Ripon, John ...

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Details of SC 8/18/885
Reference: SC 8/18/885
Description:
Petitioners: John Ripon, Abbot of Fountains.
Name(s): Ripon, John
Addressees: The commons of the present parliament.
Occupation: Abbot of Fountains
Nature of request: 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.
Nature of endorsement: [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.
Places mentioned: 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.
People mentioned: 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.
Note: Rot. Parl. vol. IV, p.28a (no.3), assigns this petition to 1414, and this is backed up by John de Ripon's appointment as abbot (CPR 1413-16 p. 180) which is dated 7 March 1414. CPR 1413-16 pp.145 and 147 is dated at Westminster, 14 December 1413 and the information contained in CCR 1413-19 pp.112-3 was laid in Chancery on 3 June 1413.
Date: [1414]
Related material:

A petition mentioned by this one, complaining about the attack in greater detail, is SC 8/23/1125

For a related petition from Roger Frank against John Ripon is SC 8/23/1124
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 3459
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
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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