Richard de Hoton, Prior, and convent of Durham de Hoton Richard King and council....

Petitioners

Richard de Hoton, Prior, and convent of Durham

Name(s)

de Hoton, Richard

Addressees

King and council.

Places mentioned

Doream (Durham), [County Durham]

Berwick upon Tweed, [Northumberland]

the Scottish March

Scotland

Beverlacum (Beverley), [East Riding of Yorkshire].

Nature of request

The Prior and convent of Durham state that the king had granted them £40 by his charter, to be received annually in the Exchequer of Berwick, until he provided them with land or benefices of equal value, in exchange for certain alms, but that this money is often withheld from them. Therefore they ask to be provided with the land or benefices, in a suitable place close to the March.

Nature of endorsement

The Keeper and Chamberlain of Scotland are to be ordered by a writ of Chancery to inquire into where the king can best provide them with what they ask, and also the canons of the church of Beverley; and they are to inform the king of this.

For another petition on the same subject, see SC 8/9/417

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.297 (mandate to chamberlain of Scotland to pay annual sum plus arrears)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.204 (grants of £40 annually to Durham and Beverley for alms)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), p.209 (no.154) (full edition)
• Rotuli Scotiae, vol. I, Ed. D. Macpherson, (Eyre & Strahan, 1814), p.34 (original warrant to Cressingham to pay the pension) & p.67 (authorisation of payment of arrears for four years by Edward II)