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Prior and convent of St Oswald of Nostell. King and council. The prior and convent...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/16/783

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Reference
SC 8/16/783
Date
[c. 1331]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and convent of St Oswald of Nostell.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The prior and convent of Nostell state that King Henry, progenitor of the present king, granted 18 li. 5 s. to them by his charter, to be received from the farm of Yorkshire by the hands of the sheriff, and they were seised of this until, in the fourth year of the present king, Henry de Faucombergge, sheriff, wilfully withheld it. They request a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to pay them the arrears of this sum, and to pay it in future.
Nature of endorsement
The Treasurer, Barons and Chamberlains of the Exchequer are to be ordered that, when they have searched the rolls and remembrances of the Exchequer, if they find that they have previously been paid this rent, and that it has been allowed to the sheriffs, then they are to pay them the arrears.
Places mentioned
Nostell, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Yorkshire.
People mentioned
Henry, King of England
Henry de Faucombergge (Faucomberge), Sheriff of Yorkshire.
Note
4 Edward III runs from 25 January 1330 to 24 January 1331. According to the List of Sheriffs, Henry de Faucomberge was sheriff of Yorkshire between 26 February 1325 and 30 September 1327, and again between 13 August 1328 and 5 December 1330. Therefore it must have been sometime between 25 January and 5 December 1330 that the rent was withheld. The date 'c. 1331' on the guard of the petition is probably fairly accurate, although it might be a year or so later.
Related material

For another petition from the same house, see SC 8/63/3140

For another document from the same house, see SC 8/270/13499

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6192
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.405b (no. 153) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060924/

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