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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Monks of the Cistercian order in England King and his council The monks state that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/38/1897
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/38/1897
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Monks of the Cistercian order in England
- Addressees
- King and his council
- Nature of request
- The monks state that the king's ancestors forbade persons of religion to make payments overseas. They are now against their will charged with a tenth by the abbot of Citeaux to be paid to the pope. They have agreed to pay another tenth to the king with the other clergy, and if they are distrained by the pope to pay the tenth then they will not be able to fulfil their obligations in chantries and alms, and will be in peril of the statute. They request letters to the proctors of the pope assigned to levy the tenth that they should not collect the tenth granted by the abbot, and writs to the abbots of the order in England that they should not contribute to it.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be forbidden by writs of prohibition to the abbots and priors of the order in England to make payments against the statute.
- Places mentioned
- Citeaux, [Burgundy, France]
- People mentioned
- Abbot of Citeaux
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition has been assigned the date c. 1320 because it is written in an early fourteenth century hand and because it was enrolled.
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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 1459
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062100/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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