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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 of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knight Hospitaller) in England. King...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/54/2656
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This record is about the Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knight Hospitaller) in England. King... dating from [1348] 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 8/54/2656
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knight Hospitaller) in England.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knight Hospitaller) in England.
- Nature of request
- The Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England states that the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are demanding to know why he ought not to be assessed for fifteenths and other contributions since the king's tenth year, although he claims to have fully paid them. He requests a writ to the Treasurer and Barons to cease their demand, as he is ready to aver that he has already paid.
- Nature of endorsement
- A writ is to be sent to the Exchequer to have them duly discharged of the fifteenths and other contributions that they can ascertain by acquittances, inquisitions or in other ways that they have paid with the commons, provided always that if anything is in arrears and not paid, they are to give satisfaction for that as reason demands.
- Places mentioned
- Scotland.
- People mentioned
- The Order of the Temple (Knights Templar).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Ascribed in Rot. Parl. vol.II p.175a-b (no. 2) to 1348.
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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 4601
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.175a-b (no.2) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062872/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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