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Richard Baussain, monk of Ware. Baussain Richard Commons in parliament. monk of Ware...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/25/1213
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/25/1213
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1426]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard Baussain, monk of Ware.
- Name(s)
- Baussain, Richard
- Addressees
- Commons in parliament.
- Occupation
- monk of Ware
- Nature of request
- Baussain states that Henry V in the first year of his reign by letters patent granted to the prior and convent of Mount Grace £100 annually from the farm of the priory of Ware. Afterwards on 24 November he leased at farm the priory of Ware with the alien priories of Noyon and Neufmarché to the earl, Thirsk, Champeny and Baussain for the duration of the war with France for certain sums, and also supporting all other charges, they being ignorant of the annuity to Mount Grace. The term lasted for a year and a half, the farm being paid to the king and to Mount Grace. The officers of the Exchequer would not allow the £150 paid to Mount Grace which they are now trying to levy from Baussain to his destruction. He requests that they consider that the farm has been paid, and that it was of no greater value than the farm, and that the king has lately granted Ware to the Carthusian house at Sheen so that Baussain has nothing of which to pay or live, so that by the authority of parliament they grant their letters under the privy seal to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer commanding that they discharge Baussain and the earl's mainpernors Thirsk and Champeny.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let a commission be made by certain people appointed by the chancellor to enquire of the true value of the priory of Ware of which the petition makes mention, and certify the chancellor. And if it is found that the priory is of a similar value that they are able to pay both Mount Grace and the king then the farmers are to pay it, and if not then the chancellor is to call to him the treasurer and chief baron of the Exchequer, and has the power by authority of parliament to hear the matter and finally determine it as it seems to them ought to be done.
- Places mentioned
- Mount Grace, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Ware, [Hertfordshire]
- Noion (Noyon sur Andelle), [France]
- Nevmarket (Neufmarché), [France]
- Sheen, [Surrey].
- People mentioned
- Henry V, King of England
- Thomas Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel
- Robert Thresk (Thirsk), clerk
- Nicholas Champeny, Prior of Ware.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by the heading in Rot. Parl. IV, p.309 where it is noted that the petition comes from 4 Hen. VI dating this to 1 Sept. 1425-31 Aug. 1426. As this is a parliamentary petition it must therefore come from the Leicester parliament of February 1426.
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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 973
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.313b-314a (no.10) (full transcription of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061384/
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