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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot and convent of St Mary's, York King The Abbot and convent of St Mary's, York,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/46/2259
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/46/2259
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1301]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of St Mary's, York
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- The Abbot and convent of St Mary's, York, state that they have lost 10,000 marks and £200 of land in Marshland in the king's court to the Earl of Lincoln, to the great detriment of their estate, and request that they might have permission to purchase another £200 of land in their fee.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king has granted it at the queen's request.
- Places mentioned
- Everwyk (York)
- Merskeland (Marshland), [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- People mentioned
- [Henry de Lacy], Earl of Lincoln
- [Margaret of France], Queen of England
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1292-1301 p.573 is dated at Lincoln, 22 February, 1301: the king's permission for the Abbot and convent to acquire land to the value of £200 a year is clearly in response to this petition.CPR 1307-13 pp.324-325 is dated at Berwick upon Tweed, 12 February 1311, and mentions the grant being made at the request of Queen Margaret, in the late king's parliament of Lincoln.The letters of licence in CCR 1307-13 pp.134-135 are dated on 8 December, 2 Edward II (1308). The petition is mentioned as being among the petitions presented to the late king in his parliament at Lincoln in his twenty-ninth year (the parliament of January 1301). So this petition can be dated conclusively to 1301.
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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 9076
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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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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), pp.134-135 (memorandum from Edward II to his chancellor, concerning this petition, resulting in letters of licence to the Abbot and convent to acquire lands to the remainder of the sum)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.573 (licence for the alienation in mortmain of certain lands to the Abbot and convent of St Mary's York by Master William de Walton, as the king has granted them licence to enter on lands to the value of £200 a year)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), pp.324-325 (licence for the alienation in mortmain to the Abbot and convent of certain lands by John de Gillinges of Appleton-le-Moor, in part satisfaction of a grant made by the late king at his Lincoln parliament, giving them licence to enter on lands to the value of £200 a year)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062469/
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