Collectors in the diocese of London of the tenth granted by the clergy at the Northampton...

Petitioners

Collectors in the diocese of London of the tenth granted by the clergy at the Northampton parliament.

Addressees

King and parliament.

Occupation

Collectors in the diocese of London of the tenth granted by the clergy at the Northampton parliament

Nature of request

The collectors of the tenth granted by the clergy at the Northampton parliament in the diocese of London, that is, in the archdeaconries of Essex, Middlesex, Colchester and London, state that they have collected part of the first payment and part of the second, but that because of the recent uprising, many people in the diocese who are in arrears with their payment, have refused to pay the remainder, and many have fled, and many have died, and although the collectors have sued against them by ecclesiastical censure to the point of excommunication, and they are still excommunicated, they do not dare to sue by writ of significavit or otherwise, on pain of death. They ask that they may be able to account only for what they have received, and that they might be discharged of the rest.

Nature of endorsement

The said collectors, and each of them, are to be charged on their oath on their account in the Exchequer to make satisfaction and payment without delay for what they have received from the said subsidy, and, as for the remainder of the subsidy, which they have not levied for the alleged reasons, they are to be completely discharged on their account, of the king's grace.

Places mentioned

London diocese

Essex archdeaconry

Middlesex archdeaconry

Colchester archdeaconry

London archdeaconry.

For transcript, see no.43 of PRO 31/7/108