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Prior and the canons of Hexham. King and council. The prior and canons having been...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/540

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Reference
SC 8/11/540
Date
[1334]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and the canons of Hexham.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The prior and canons having been despoiled many times in the Scottish war request aid and relief by a licence of the king to appropriate the church of Alston of which they have the advowson. The church is worth by extent 20 marks per annum and the licence would not be to the damage or charge of the king.
Nature of endorsement
It is not a petition of parliament.
Places mentioned
Hextildesham (Hexham), [Northumberland]
Aldeston (Alston), [Northumberland].
Note
The petition is dated to 1334 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.73, making this part of 'petitions in parliament in 8 Edward III', though this is a Hale transcript.
Related material

For another petition from the prior relating to Alston, see SC 8/307/15310

For an earlier petition by the petitioners relating to Alston see SC 8/265/13226

For another petition from the prior seeking financial aid during the dispersion, see SC 8/52/2553

For another petition from the petitioners relating to Alston, see SC 8/11/540

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4188
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), p.200 (no.178) (brief calendar)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.77 (no.20) (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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 73-89, no. 20 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060667/

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