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Prior and convent of Eye. King and council. The Prior and convent of Eye state that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/17/836
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/17/836
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1327-1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and convent of Eye.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The Prior and convent of Eye state that they have long sued to the king, both during parliament and outside parliament, for the return of the advowsons of Thorndon and Mellis, which they gave the late king in exchange for the appropriation of the church of Laxfield, which the king would arrange at the Roman Curia. However, despite the king's letters, the pope has not done anything on this, and the advowsons are in the king's hand. They request that they might have either the appropriation, or the two advowsons, as the entire Great Council was informed at the last parliament at Westminster, in response to the prior's petition, that if the advowsons were given for this reason, the king should return them, or otherwise give them satisfaction.
- Nature of endorsement
- It pleases the king to write specially to the Bishop of Norwich and to the chapter, to appropriate the church of Laxfield, and he intends to expedite the matter; and if he does not, he will do justice to them concerning the other advowsons.
- Places mentioned
- Eye, [Suffolk]
- Thorndon, [Suffolk]
- Mellis, [Suffolk]
- Laxfield, [Suffolk].
- People mentioned
- [Edward II], King of England
- [William Ayermine (Airmyn)], Bishop of Norwich.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated '1330-9' on the guard, with reference to CPR 1338-40 p.243 (Berkhampstead, 18 April 1339): a prohibition to ecclesiastical persons from proceeding in derogation of the king's right to present to the church of Laxfield, pertaining to the temporalities of the priory of Eye now in his hand. But CPR 1330-4 p. 51 (Westminster, 10 December 1330) is a grant to John de Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, in fee tail, of the advowsons of Thorndon and Mellis: after this period they are clearly not in the king's hand, as the petition states, and so it must surely predate this grant. In this case is the 'derrein parlement at Westmoster' at which the petition in Rot. Parl. vol. II, p. 31a no. 1 was presented the parliament of February 1329? (CCR 1323-1327 p.539 is dated 12 January 1326).
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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 2952
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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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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.539 (grant of advowson of Thorndon and Mellis to the king)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.31a (no. 1) (the previous petition of which this petition makes mention) & p.414a (no.200) (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, introduction (discussion of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060979/
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