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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior and convent of Our Lady, Carlisle King The petitioners state that they have...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/38/1857
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This record is about the Prior and convent of Our Lady, Carlisle King The petitioners state that they have... dating from [c. 1332] 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 8/38/1857
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1332]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and convent of Our Lady, Carlisle
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that they have been ruined in the Scottish war, and suffered great damage to their house by fire, and cannot endure without some remedy. They are further troubled by a plea of Champion who has sued them before the king for a corrody in the house for his life by the grant of the king, the house being charged by the king to maintain one of the king's men forever by his grant. They request that the grant be repealed and the suit be ended, as they are not able to endure the charge without the aid of the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- He has his response by which he is to aid himself in pleading.
- Places mentioned
- Cardoill (Carlisle), [Cumberland]
- People mentioned
- Richard Champion
- Peter de Kirkoswald
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates c. 1332 for Champion was granted the maintenance on 8 September 1331, and the letter to the prior and convent are dated 18 March 1332, so that the suits must have followed shortly thereafter (CCR 1330-3, p.337; C 270/1/58).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the letter to the prior and convent of Carlisle to admit Champion for his maintenance see item 58 in C 270/1
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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 1364
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.337 (sending of Champion to the priory for maintenance)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062060/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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