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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prioress and convent of Aconbury. King and council. The prioress and convent request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/1/23
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This record is about the Prioress and convent of Aconbury. King and council. The prioress and convent request... dating from [1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/1/23
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prioress and convent of Aconbury.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The prioress and convent request that they be able to appropriate 2 carucates of land which Isabel daughter of Warren de Grendene held in Stawardes Hide which is held from the bishop of Hereford, and of a half carucate of land held from the same in Twinordesfeld.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- They should sue a writ [...].2) They should sue a writ in Chancery if it should be to the damage [of anyone] etc.
- Places mentioned
- Acornebury (Aconbury), [Herefordshire]
- Stawardes Hide [unidentified], [Herefordshire]
- Twinordesfeld [unidentified], [Herefordshire]
- (Herefordshire).
- People mentioned
- Isabel [de Grenedene] daughter of Warren de Grenedene
- John, parson of Lodelawe
- Hugh de la Chambre.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1305 based on the date from Rot. Parl., vol I, p.159.
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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 266
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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)
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- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp. 27-8 (no.38) (Latin summary and full edition of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.161a (no.14) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
- 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), roll 12, appendix, no. 18 (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060135/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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