Catalogue description Petitioners: Abbess and convent of Barking. Addressees: King and council. ...

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Details of SC 8/160/7957
Reference: SC 8/160/7957
Description:
Petitioners: Abbess and convent of Barking.
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: The abbess and convent request that they are for them and their naif tenants able to cut and carry timber and fuel away from their wood of Hainault within Becontree hundred as they can only cut them by the view of the ministers of the forests.
Nature of endorsement: Let it be ordered to the chief keeper of the Forest or his lieutenant that they enquire of to whose damage it is if the king grants the things contained in this petition, and when the inquisition is returned, the king will be advised.
Places mentioned: Barking, [Essex]; Becontree hundred, [Essex]; Hyneholte (Hainault) wood, [Essex].
Note: The petition dates to 1334 as a copy of the original petition was made by Hale and published in Vol. II::p.80b (no. 32) under the regnal year 8 Edw. III.
Date: [1334]
Related material:

For a related document, see SC 8/274/13700

For a related document, see SC 8/166/8272

For a related document, see SC 8/335/15842
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.80b (no.32) (full edition of later copy of original petition)

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol.II, pp.73-89, no.32 (summary of references)

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