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

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Details of SC 8/239/11943
Reference: SC 8/239/11943
Description:
Petitioners: Monks of Bindon.
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: The monks of Bindon state that they have been completely ruined by the machinations of the King's ministers and by a malevolent Abbot, John de Montagu, who has rightly been expelled. They ask that the gifts and grants made under their stolen common seal, between the feast of St Nicholas in the King's second year and the present, might be repealed, that they might be given some suitable remedy for their plundered goods, and that they might be discharged of liveries, pensions and robes for three years.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Bindon, [Dorset]; Dorchester, [Dorset].
People mentioned: John de Montagu (Montague), Abbot of Bindon; Hugh Courtenay; Hugh Poynz.
Note: Datable to 1331 with reference to no.5074 of C 81/186, with which this petition was formerly enclosed.CPR 1330-4 p.89 is dated 22 March 1331, p.142 is dated 29 April 1331, p.63 is dated 23 January 1331 and p.131 is dated 16 February 1331.
Date: [1331]
Related material:

For another petition from this house, see SC 8/239/11943

For another petition from this house, see SC 8/93/4613

For a related petition see SC 8/37/1831

For a related petition see SC 8/37/1830

For a related petition see SC 8/37/1829

For a document with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see no.5074 of C 81/186
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
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), p.89 (appointment of individuals to arrest Montagu, an apostate monk) & p.142 (writ of aid to individuals taking Montagu back to Bindon) pp.63, 131 (commissions of oyer and terminer into acts against the abbey)

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