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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Carmelite friars of Oxford. King and council. The friars state that they have a grant...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/512
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/11/512
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Carmelite friars of Oxford.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The friars state that they have a grant of alms by letters patent from Edward II for the sustenance of 24 friars to be taken at the Exchequer for a vow that he made in the Scottish war at Stirling when he was in great danger. They received the alms for a long time, but it has been withheld from them for many years. They request that the king order that the vow be complied with so that they are better able to serve God and discharge the vow.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.They should advise how and in what manner the king can meet their request, and when they have informed him, and upon their information he will by his good council ordain what is rightly to be done.
- Places mentioned
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
- Estrivelin (Stirling), [Stirlingshire, Scotland].
- People mentioned
- Edward II, King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1330 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.31 which records that this is from a Hale manuscript of petitions in parliament of 4 Edward III at Westminster after the feast of St Katherine (25 November).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also item 1700 in C 81/152
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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 6397
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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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- Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.130 (no.78) (full edition of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.35b (no.23) (defective 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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 23 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060639/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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