Prior and Convent of Brinkburn. King and council. The prior and Convent of Brinkburn...

Petitioners

Prior and Convent of Brinkburn.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The prior and Convent of Brinkburn state that King Edward, the present king's father, granted permission to William de Felton by his charter to give them 16 s. worth of rent, with appurtenances, in Newcastle upon Tyne, in exchange for 2 messuages and 33 acres of land, with appurtenances, in Thirston, and because in the Eyre of Hugh de Cressingham, held at Newcastle in the twenty-first year of King Edward's reign, it was presented that they had acquired this rent without permission, it is being demanded from them for the time which has passed. They request that the king consider their charter, a copy of which is attached to the petition, and the exchanges, from which they have not been able to profit, and their great poverty, and that he confirm the rent to them, and pardon them the demand for the past.

Nature of endorsement

[None, as endorsement on SC 8/17/821B]

Places mentioned

Brinkburn, [Northumberland]

Newcastle upon Tyne, (Northumberland)

Thrasterston (Thirston), [Northumberland].

People mentioned

Edward [I], King of England, father of the present king

William de Felton

Hugh de Cressyngham (Cressingham).

The charter mentioned by the petition is SC 8/17/821B

A later related petition is SC 8/7/317

• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no. 804 (writ and inquisition relating to the petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.411a (no.141) (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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, no. 141 (summary of references)