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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Crauden, prior of Ely. de Crauden John King and council. prior of Ely The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/372
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/8/372
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1324-1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Crauden, prior of Ely.
- Name(s)
- de Crauden, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- prior of Ely
- Nature of request
- The Prior of Ely claims that he has been wrongly amerced in a hundred pounds, because it was stated before John de Berewyk and his companions in the last eyre at Ely, in time of vacancy in the bishopric, that one Robert le Carpenter of Ely, clerk, who had been convicted in the previous Eyre, before John Devaus and William de Saham, and had been delivered to the prior's prison, had escaped. The present prior has previously delivered a bill in parliament, and had the tenor of the indictment brought before the king, and stated that Robert had never been delivered to his predecessor, nor had he escaped, nor did the prior have custody of the spiritualies during a vacancy. A writ was sent to the treasurer and chamberlains to search the rolls, and they found no mention of Robert. The prior has a day at the octave of Michaelmas, to try his case by a jury, and requests a writ to the barons of the Exchequer to cease from demanding the hundred pounds until the case is determined.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because Geoffrey le Scrop attests that the plea is pending before the king he is to have a writ of surcease during the plea.
- Places mentioned
- Ely, [Cambridgeshire].
- People mentioned
- John de Berewyk (Berwick), justice
- Robert le Carpenter of Ely, clerk
- John Devaus (de Vaux), justice
- William de Saham (Soham), justice
- Geoffrey le Scrop (Scrope).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Date given on the evidence of Rot. Parl. JRS Phillips (PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337) says that these petitions probably all do belong to 18 Edward II, although there is no indication that they were presented either at the non-parliamentary assembly of October 1324 or the parliament of June 1325. The last vacancy in Ely was between May and October 1316.
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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 2998
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.424a, no.29 (full edition of a later copy of the 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. 416-429, no. 29 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060496/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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