? No Petitioner named Writ from Edward II to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

Writ from Edward II to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer stating that the Bishop of Llandaff has requested a tithe of the iron mines within the parish of Newland, and asking them to search the rolls and memoranda of the Exchequer to find out if such a tithe had been paid previously, or some compensation made for it, and to inform him on this matter at the present parliament.

Nature of endorsement

Having examined the rolls and memoranda of the Exchequer, we have not found if the tithes of which mention is made in this writ were previously paid, or if any compensation was made in place of those tithes, or not.

Places mentioned

Nova Terra (Newland), [Gloucestershire]

Forest of Dean, [Gloucestershire].

People mentioned

Edward [II], King of England

Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer

J[John de Monmouth], Bishop of Llandaff.

The petition which occasioned this writ is SC 8/10/498A

For a related document see SC 8/12/552

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.31 (calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.278-9 (grant of tithe of iron mine to church of Newland)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.13a-b, no. 3 (transcription of a later copy of later related petition and writ)