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

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Details of SC 8/37/1829
Reference: SC 8/37/1829
Description:
Petitioners: Abbot and convent of Bindon
Addressees: King and council
Nature of request: The abbot and convent show that they are totally ruined, and that their seal has been stolen by thieves, who have used it to forge blank charters of corrodies and pensions. They request that they are granted keepers with the power to defend them from such excesses.
Nature of endorsement: Let this bill be ordered into Chancery and the chancellor is to do what is to be done.
Places mentioned: Bindon, [Dorset]
Note: The petition must date to c. 1330 for commissions of oyer and terminer concerning further acts against the abbey whilst it was in the king's protection were issued in January and February 1331 (CPR 1330-4, pp.63, 131).
Date: [c. 1330]
Related material:

For a related petition from the same petitioners see SC 8/239/11943

For another petition by the abbot, see SC 8/93/4613

For a further petition relating to this house see SC 8/37/1831

For a further petition relating to this house see SC 8/37/1830
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 1303
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), pp.63,131 (commissions of oyer and terminer into acts against the abbey)

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