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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named Audinard, late keeper of the works at the Tower of London states...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/1/18
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/1/18
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Audinard, late keeper of the works at the Tower of London states that in the enlargement of the ditch next to the Tower towards [the hospital] of St Katherine a great part of the lands which were held by many tenants, who rendered to the hospital 73s. 5d. annual rent were taken for the king, and satisfaction was made to the tenants for the damage to their buildings and their produce then existing in the foundation [of the hospital?] by an inspection of the then mayor and aldermen of London and other selected upright men. The foundation remained by this taking for the king obliged to the hospital of St Katherine for the 73s. 5d. to be annually paid by the king for the foundation of the hospital thus occupied. Audinard states that whilst he was keeper of the works he paid to the keeper and brethren of the hospital 73s. 5d. annually, and had an allowance for the payment in his account rendered in the Exchequer. He further states that by certification of the rolls of account, and by his testimony the keeper and brethren had a writ de Liberate to have the rent after he was dismissed as keeper of the Tower and works.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- This testimony is not sufficient.2) They should examine the rolls of Chancery for the writ of liberate which they had, and again it should be deferred before the council.
- Places mentioned
- Tower of London, London
- London.
- People mentioned
- Giles de Audinard [Audenard] late keeper of the works at the Tower of London
- hospital of St Katherine without the Tower of London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The testimony is dated to 1302 on the bais of the dating of the petition with which it was formerly enclosed (SC 8/1/17; Rot. Parl., vol I, p.156a).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the petition with which this statement was enclosed, see SC 8/1/17
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 4580
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.156a (no.11) (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
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Record URL
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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