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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot and convent of Blanchland King and council The abbot and convent state that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/34/1682
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This record is about the Abbot and convent of Blanchland King and council The abbot and convent state that... dating from [1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/34/1682
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of Blanchland
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The abbot and convent state that they have often suffered destruction and damage from the coming of the Scots, and now by all manner of royal purveyance they have lost crops growing on the land and sheep, and will have to disperse without the aid of the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king is to be advised of how and where he is able to aid them.
- Places mentioned
- Blanchland, [Northumberland]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This can be firmly dated to 1327 by the grant of £20 worth of victuals at Newcastle by Edward III for the relief on the canons of Blanchland (CCR 1327-30, p.170).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a later related petition by the same petitioners see SC 8/34/1683
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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 429
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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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- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.192-3 (no.169) (full edition of petition)
- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.42 (an erroneous inclusion confusing the Welsh Cistercian abbey of Whitland with the Northumbrian Premonstratensian abbey of Blanchland)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.170 (order to the receiver of the king's victuals in Newcastle to deliver £20 worth of victuals to the abbot and convent)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061879/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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