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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior and convent of Bicknacre King Prior and convent of Bicknacre The petitioners...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/34/1668
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/34/1668
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1321]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and convent of Bicknacre
- Addressees
- King
- Occupation
- Prior and convent of Bicknacre
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request a remedy and that the king will command his will concerning their lands that were alienated by earlier priors some with and some without the king's licence, and which the escheator has taken into the king's hand, and dares not remove it without an order from the king. Their house is impoverished.
- Nature of endorsement
- The people of the country are to be ordered to examine the matter, and the tenants are to be warned to be in Chancery on a certain day to show by whose title they claim to hold these lands, and be further warned to be before the enquirers on the taking of the inquisition.
- Places mentioned
- Bicknacre, [Essex]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1381 as the inquisition ordered in the response to this petition was held in late June 1321, and the series of writs ordering the restoration of the various alienated land date to the period 8-16 July 1321 (CIM 1307-49, no.450; CCR 1318-23, pp.386-8).
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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 369
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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. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.386-8 (various writs ordering the restoration of lands alienated by earlier priors to the tenants of the same)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.450 (inquisition concerning the lands alienated by the priors.)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061865/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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