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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 Drax King and council The Prior and convent of Drax complain...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/43/2131
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This record is about the Prior and convent of Drax King and council The Prior and convent of Drax complain... dating from [c. 1307] 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 8/43/2131
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and convent of Drax
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The Prior and convent of Drax complain that, although they pay the tithes from their church as from a spiritual place, the collectors of the thirtieth are attempting to levy this tax from them; for which they request a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] John Biron and John Elot, assessors and collectors of the thirtieth in the West Riding of Yorkshire are to be written to.[On dorse] The assessors are to cease [their levy] on the corn which they have in the name of tithe, as having been tithed, but the assessors are to proceed with the things that come from their lay fee.
- Places mentioned
- Drax, West Riding of Yorkshire
- People mentioned
- John Biron, assessor and collector of the thirtieth in the West Riding of Yorkshire
- John Elot, assessor and collector of the thirtieth in the West Riding of Yorkshire
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1302-7 p.528 is dated at Carlisle, 13 March 1307, and, although not directly related, provides evidence for John Biron and John Elot as assessors and collectors of the thirtieth in the West Riding of Yorkshire at this time.
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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 2806
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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 I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.528 (order to John Biron and John Elot, assessors and collectors of the twentieth and thirtieth in Yorkshire, to supersede the levying of the thirtieth from the Abbot and convent of Selby from their church of Snaith)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062337/
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