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Bishop of Durham King and council Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Durham asks that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/43/2148
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This record is about the Bishop of Durham King and council Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Durham asks that... dating from [c. 1320-c. 1350] 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 8/43/2148
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1320-c. 1350]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Bishop of Durham
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- Bishop of Durham
- Nature of request
- The Bishop of Durham asks that his Chancery might be able to issue writs which were previously made unnecessary by the frequency of eyres and the ease of remedy that way, as he does not dare to issue them now without the king's permission. He therefore asks that he might be able to do justice by whatever writ is necessary, according to their case.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.This petition concerns changes in the law, and cannot be done except at the request of the Bishop of Durham and the community of the Diocese, and with the assent of the king and the prelates, earls, barons and other great men of the land, and this in parliament, if anything ought to be done: for which reason nothing can be done at present.
- Places mentioned
- The franchise (liberty) of Durham and Norhamshire
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? c. 1327-1333, with reference to Patent and Close Rolls. SCCKB, vol. II::pp.cxlv-vi, however, says that 'this petition apparently belongs to the second half of Edward II's reign or the early years of that of Edward III', and Northern Petitions pp.237-9 (no.175), discussing the related SC 8/44/2165, a contemporary petition on the same subject from the people of the franchise of Durham and Norhamshire, with an identical endorsement in the same hand, dates it to 'post 1345'. Notional dates have been fixed here encompassing the latter part of Edward II's reign but confining the petition to the period before the mid-fourteenth century; the assumption is that the petition has the same date as SC 8/44/2165.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition from the people of Durham and Norhamshire, with identical endorsement, is SC 8/44/2165
A related petition is SC 8/107/5334
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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 2631
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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)
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- Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. II, Edw I, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LVII, 1938), pp.cxlv-vi (full edition of petition)
- The Functions of the Medieval Parliament of England, G.O. Sayles, (Hambledon Press, 1988), p.381 (no. vi) (English summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062354/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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