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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Hotham, bishop of Ely. Hotham John King and council. bishop of Ely John, bishop...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/389
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This record is about the John Hotham, bishop of Ely. Hotham John King and council. bishop of Ely John, bishop... dating from [1324-1325] 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 8/8/389
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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 Hotham, bishop of Ely.
- Name(s)
- Hotham, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- bishop of Ely
- Nature of request
- John, bishop of Ely states that William de Reed held certain lands and tenements in Pampisford of him, as of right of his church, and married Elizabeth, daughter and one of the heirs of Piers de la Stane, who held various tenements of the king in Cainhoe and Silton. Now both are dead, and their heir under age, and the lands in Pampisford have been seized into the king's hand together with the lands held of the king. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to go to Chancery, and if the inquisition returned there is inadequate, he is to sue another inquisition.
- Places mentioned
- Pampesworth (Pampisford), Cambridgeshire
- Kaino (Cainhoe), Bedfordshire
- Selton (Silton), Dorset.
- People mentioned
- William de Reed
- Elizabeth [de la Stane]
- Piers de la Stane.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition concerning William's and Elizabeth's lands wrongly taken into the king's hand, see SC 8/8/391
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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 2927
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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.428b, no.47 (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. 47 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060513/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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