Clergy of the bishopric of Carlisle and the archdeaconry of Richmondshire. King and...

Petitioners

Clergy of the bishopric of Carlisle and the archdeaconry of Richmondshire.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The clergy of the bishopric of Carlisle and the archdeaconry of Richmondshire state that they are greatly impoverished by attacks by the Scots, because of which the king has recently had their benefices re-assessed for the purposes of taxation. They request that they might pay the tenth from the English clergy recently granted to the king by the pope at this last assessment, because of their great poverty. They also request a writ on this, as has been granted to the clergy of the bishopric of Durham.

Nature of endorsement

It is to be done this time of the king's grace, saving the king's right in future.

Places mentioned

Carlisle diocese

Richmondshire archdeaconry.

People mentioned

Clergy of the bishopric of Durham.

For the similar petition by the bishopric of Durham, the response to which is mentioned in the petition, see SC 8/82/4095

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.16-17 (order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to receive the tenth in the archdeaconry of Richmond according to the taxation made by the Archdeacon of Richmond) & p.24 (order to the Bishop of Winchester to supersede collection of the tenth in the diocese of Carlisle at the old taxation, and to collect it instead according to the taxation to be sent to him by the Bishop of Carlisle)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.13 (orders for a new assessment of the clergy of the archdeaconry of Richmond)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.134-5 (no.101) (full edition)