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Prioress and Convent of Aconbury. King and council. The Prioress and Convent of Aconbury...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/18/867

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Reference
SC 8/18/867
Date
[1340]
Description
Petitioners
Prioress and Convent of Aconbury.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The Prioress and Convent of Aconbury state that although they have no spirituality or lay fee attached to a spirituality, and have always been taxed with the laity rather than the clergy, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, collectors of the tenth granted by the clergy in the eighth year of the king's reign, are demanding money from them, although an inquisition has found that they do not owe this. Furthermore, the Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London, collectors of the annual, biennial and triennial tenths granted by the clergy are also demanding money from them, and have sent a writ to the Sheriff of Herefordshire to collect the lot: with the result that they are grievously distrained. They request a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] It is answered that she is to go to Chancery, and that it is fitting for the business to be dealt with there.[On dorse]: She is to have a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer that, when they have examined the inquisitions, they are to inform themselves about the contents of the petition and are to do justice.
Places mentioned
Acornbire (Aconbury), [Herefordshire].
People mentioned
Dean and Chapter of Hereford
[Henry Burghersh], Bishop of Lincoln
[Ralph Stratford], bishop of London.
Note
CCR 1339-41 p. 430 is dated July 1340.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 41
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. V, 1339-1341, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.430 (instructions to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to tax the petitioners among the laity rather than the clergy, for the triennial tenth and fifteenth)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.419b, no.235 (full edition of original petition)
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