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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 of Carlisle. King and council The petitioners state...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/40/1973
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This record is about the Prior and convent of Our Lady of Carlisle. King and council The petitioners state... dating from [1334] 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 8/40/1973
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and convent of Our Lady of Carlisle.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that they are ruined by the Scottish war and the accidental burning of their house, and that they are bound to the king in a sum for victuals that the king instructed the prior's predecessor to receive, and which they used during the war to sustain themselves. They request that it be granted to them that this debt be fixed at 100s. per annum, and if it is levied otherwise they will not be able to maintain their church without great mischief.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.2) Let them have respite until Michaelmas next and meanwhile let them come before the king to have grace.
- Places mentioned
- Kardoill (Carlisle), [Cumberland]
- Cumberland
- Westmorland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1334 when the prior was given respite (CCR 1333-7, p.306).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a later petition by the same petitioners on a related matter see SC 8/84/4170
For another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter see SC 8/84/4171
For another petition by the same petitioners see SC 8/84/4169
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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 1398
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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. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.306 (order to the treasurer and barons to give respite)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062177/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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