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

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Details of SC 8/225/11245
Reference: SC 8/225/11245
Description:
Petitioners: Abbot and convent of Westminster.
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: [Petition in 2 parts].1) The abbot and convent request all the fines, amercements, issues, forfeits, goods and chattels of the felons and fugitives who have entered their franchise or were taken there.2) They ask that they, and their bailiffs and ministers, might be pardoned all the debts, accounts and demands due from them in the Exchequer, and demanded from them by summons of the Exchequer or otherwise, provided that they do not have an allowance for tenths, or the farms of alien priories.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Westminster.
Note: The petition is dated to 1391-1394 on the basis of a patent and a close roll entry. On 16 March 1391 a writ of supersedeas was issued concerning the goods of executed felons, though this does not seem to be in response to part 2 of the petition but rather an earlier stage in a long-running complaint (CCR 1389-92, p.349). On 29 August 1394, the abbot and convent were pardoned their debts at the Exchequer except those pertaining to tenths and fifteenths, and this, it seems likely, was in response to the petition (CPR 1391-6, p.494). It is possible that the petition and its duplicate represent two attempts to obtain satisfaction and that this petition dates to 1391, and SC 8/150/7483 may date to 1394.
Date: [1391-1394]
Related material:

For a duplicate of this petition with response, see SC 8/150/7483
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), p.349 (writ of supersedeas concerning the goods of felons)

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1391-1396, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.494 (pardon of all kinds of debts except those of tenths and fifteenths)

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