Richard de Hoton, prior of Durham; Convent of Durham. de Hoton Richard King and council....

Petitioners

Richard de Hoton, prior of Durham; Convent of Durham.

Name(s)

de Hoton, Richard

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

prior of Durham

Nature of request

The prior and convent of Durham state that the king granted forty pounds to them, by his charter, to be received at two terms annually from the Berwick Exchequer, to maintain various alms in honour of St Cuthbert, as listed in the petition, and that they were seised of this money, by delivery of Hugh de Cressingham, and by the king's letter, in the twenty-fourth year of his reign. Since then they have maintained these alms, but have had no allowance for them. They request the arrears of this payment, and that the king command his Treasurer of Scotland to have payment made in future.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.The chamberlain of Scotland is to be ordered to pay the arrears to them, and likewise to the convent of Beverley, from the issues of Scotland, and henceforth to pay them annually, according to the tenor of their charters.

Places mentioned

Durham, [Co. Durham]

Berwyk (Berwick-upon-Tweed), [Northumberland]

Scotland

Beverley, [East Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Hugh de Cressingham

convent of Beverley.

For transcript, see p.60 of PRO 31/7/93

For another petition on the same subject, see SC 8/43/2123

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.297 (mandate to chamberlain of Scotland to pay annual sum plus arrears)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.204 (grants of £40 annually to Durham and Beverley for alms)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.207-9 (no.153) (full edition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.463b, no.19 (full edition of original petition)
• Rotuli Scotiae, vol. I, Ed. D. Macpherson, (Eyre & Strahan, 1814), p.34 (original warrant to Cressingham to pay the pension); p.67 (authorisation of payment of arrears for four years by Edward II)
• 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), 1305, autumn parliament, appendix, evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery enrolments and elsewhere, no.27 (list of references to this petition)