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Abbot and convent of Holmcultram. King and council. The abbot and convent of Holmcultram...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/311

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Reference
SC 8/7/311
Date
[1321-1322]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and convent of Holmcultram.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The abbot and convent of Holmcultram state that their house is so greatly impoverished by the Scottish war that they cannot cultivate their lands or have their sustenance from them if they do not lease them to tenants for a term of years or of life: and this they are minded to do - if it please the king, their patron. Because their lands and possessions are in free, pure and perpetual alms, by deeds of the king's ancestors, and confirmed by him, they request that they and their lands might not be enslaved nor their franchises, usages and customs harmed by this lease, and that these tenants might not be geldable or liable to tallage with the community of the county, except for the bodies of the tenants in defence of the march when necessary at the king's will.
Nature of endorsement
They are permitted to lease their lands for a term of years for their benefit, without licence etc. But as regards the rest, it seems that it is not to be done.
Places mentioned
Holmcoltran (Abbeytown), [Cumberland]
Scotland.
Note
One of a collection of petitions published on pages 387ff of Rot. Parl., vol I., which all seem to date from around 1322. This dating is confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, which dates these petitions to 15 or 16 Edward II (1321-1323).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4270
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.410a, no. 135 (full edition 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. I, pp. 387-415, no. 135 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060433/

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