Catalogue description Petitioners: John de Usk, Abbot of Chertsey. Name(s): de Usk, John ...

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Details of SC 8/103/5106
Reference: SC 8/103/5106
Description:
Petitioners: John de Usk, Abbot of Chertsey.
Name(s): de Usk, John
Addressees: King and Parliament.
Occupation: Abbot of Chertsey
Nature of request: The petitioner asks for consideration of various matters and an order for a remedy. He shows how his Abbey has manors appurtenant to its foundation by the king's ancestors, and conjointly the tenants of Chobham, Frimley, Thorpe and Egham, held along with others of villein blood, and other bondsmen held at the petitioner's will, rendering each year rents, customary payments and services etc., as they were established, and more made since the foundation of the Abbey, which was founded by Frithewold and St Erkenwold in the year AD 722, and these rents, payments etc., have been held without interruption ever since until recently, when they were bought by malicious council, alliance and conspiracy by persons who acquired a patent called an exemplification, by which they supposed to have their freedom etc., which would destroy the abbey forever. When the petitioner by his officials wished to charge the tenants with their services (in winter as in summer), they were resisted and menaced with staves and other weapons, and threatened with the burning of the abbey and the killing of the monks. The petitioner then purchased a writ direct to the sheriff to distrain them and took distress by virtue of the said writ, and then they broke the said seizure on their own authority and threatened that if they did not have their way then thousands of men in these lands would die.
Nature of endorsement: An answer is made to this petition among the general petitions of the commons.
Places mentioned: Chertsey, [Surrey]; Chobham, [Surrey]; Frimley, [Surrey]; Thorpe, [Surrey]; Egham, [Surrey]; London.
People mentioned: Frithewold; St Erkenwold.
Note: Firmly datable by reference to CPR 1377-81, p. 251.
Date: [1378]
Related material:

For a related petition see SC 8/103/5107

For a related petition see SC 8/103/5102

For transcript, see no.15 of PRO 31/7/110
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 2081
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.251 (resulting commission of oyer and terminer)

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