Abbot and convent of Osney. King. The abbot and convent of Osney ask the king for...

Petitioners

Abbot and convent of Osney.

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The abbot and convent of Osney ask the king for a letter under his great seal, on behalf of him and his heirs, acquitting them and their successors against the pope of 2996li. 17s. 8d., which they paid at the Exchequer for the tithe for the Holy Land.

Nature of endorsement

The chancellor is to examine the king's letters of immunity which they have, and if they are not adequate he is to issue them with the king's letters under the great seal that the king and his heirs are obliged to preserve them immune. And the other letters are to be annulled, and they are to be kept in the Treasury.

Places mentioned

Osney, [Oxfordshire]

Holy Land.

For transcript, see p.105 of PRO 31/7/93

For another version of this petition see SC 8/10/480

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.385 (acknowledgment of receipt of money for the tithe for the Holy Land, and a promise to keep them immune with respect to the pope)
• Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), pp.107-108 (summary of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.475a, no.91 (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), 1305, autumn parliament, appendix, evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery enrolments and elsewhere, no.4 (summary of references)