Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Item

Jewish Community of Bristol 1) The Jews request a writ to the treasurer and barons...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/36/1778

What’s it about?

This record is about the Jewish Community of Bristol 1) The Jews request a writ to the treasurer and barons... dating from [? 1273] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

Is it available online?

Yes, this record is available online and can be downloaded. How to view it.

Can I see it in person?

No, this record is not available to see in person at The National Archives. Other ways to view it.

Full description and record details

Reference
SC 8/36/1778
Date
[? 1273]
Description
Petitioners
Jewish Community of Bristol
Nature of request
1) The Jews request a writ to the treasurer and barons that they let them have a true account from Wattelegh who has surcharged them for things that are not due, and, for those things that are found to be rightly charged, that they have a reasonable term for payment.2) They request that for the business contained in this schedule for the Jews of Bristol be expedited by the king and of other things intimated by them for because it is fitting to have council at the Exchequer.3) The community request that because the Christians . . . certain of their charters one part of which is in the chest of the king where they are unsealed just as they are in London, and be delivered to the Chirographers.4) The constable of Bristol prays a writ to the treasurer and to Seitone that there is no reason for the summons that he received to go to London to take the tallage of the Jews of Bristol to answer for the sum at the coming of the king.
Nature of endorsement
To the Chancellor by Adam de Winton for the Jews of Bristol, Hereford and Gloucester.
Places mentioned
Bristowe (Bristol)
London
Hereford, [Herefordshire]
Gloucester, [Gloucestershire]
People mentioned
John de Watteleghe, Receiver of gold of Eleanor of Provence, Queen of England
Roger de Seitone
Adam de Winton
Note
The petition possibly dates to 1273 because a mandate was issued to Adam de Winton, who is indeed mentioned on the back of the petition concerning the chests of the debts of the chirographers (CPR 1272-81, p.6).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1265
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. I, 1272-1281, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.6 (mandate to Winton concerning the chests of debts of the chirographers)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061978/

How to order it

  1. View this record page in our current catalogue
  2. Check viewing and downloading options
  3. Select an option and follow instructions
View this record page

Series information

SC 8

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

See the series level description for more information about this record.

View series description

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

74,884 records

Within the department: SC

Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type, and formerly...

18,283 records

Within the series: SC 8

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

54 records

Within the piece: SC 8/36

1751-1800. Individual petitions are described , dated, and are available at item...

You are currently looking at the item: SC 8/36/1778

Jewish Community of Bristol 1) The Jews request a writ to the treasurer and barons...

Related records

Records that share similar topics with this record.