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William Melton Archbishop of York. Melton William King and council. Archbishop of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/377
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/8/377
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Melton Archbishop of York.
- Name(s)
- Melton, William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Archbishop of York
- Nature of request
- The archbishop of York states that custody of the spiritualities of the bishopric of Carlisle belong to him in time of vacancy, as the temporalities belong to the king. However, during the last vacancy, the king's ministers, especially Robert de Barton, keeper of the temporalities, took from the churches of Penrith and Dalston tithes of wool and lambs, mortuary gifts, offerings, pensions, revenues and other spiritual rights. The archbishop requests a swift and suitable remedy for these things. Nor should the fact that during a previous vacancy Edward I's ministers wrongly and without warrant took tithes of wool and lambs from the church of Penrith be considered as a precedent.
- Nature of endorsement
- A writ is to be issued to Robert de Barton, lately keeper, that he is to inform the king in Chancery as to why he took, for the king's benefit, the tithes, mortuary gifts and other spiritual things mentioned in the bill, from the churches of Penrith and Dalston.
- Places mentioned
- Evrewyck (York)
- Cardoill (Carlisle), [Cumberland]
- Penrith, [Cumberland]
- Dalston, [Cumberland].
- People mentioned
- Robert de Barton, keeper of the temporalities of the bishopric of Carlisle
- Edward I, king of England.
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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. In this case it must be after June 20, 1325, when Robert de Barton was ordered to deliver the temporalities of the diocese of Carlisle to the new bishop, John de Ros (CPR 1324-1327, p.132). He had previously been ordered to deliver them to William de Ayremynne, whose election was later quashed, on February 19 1325 (CPR 1324-1327, p.92). The previous bishop, John of Halton, had died on 1 November 1324.
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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 8961
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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.425a, no.34 (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. 34 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060501/
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