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Prioress and nuns of Coldstream King and council The Prioress and nuns of Coldstream...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/54/2694

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Reference
SC 8/54/2694
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Prioress and nuns of Coldstream
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The Prioress and nuns of Coldstream request the king's letter to the Sheriff of Northumberland, to give them seisin of their rents in his bailiwick, from which they were expelled by the war.
Nature of endorsement
She is to have a writ of Chancery to the Sheriff of Northumberland, that he is to provide information on what tenements they had in his bailiwick before the Scottish war begun, and how they held those tenements, and who holds them now.
Places mentioned
Coldstream, [Berwickshire, Scotland]
Northumberland
Note
Dated to 1305, with reference to Memoranda de Parliamento, pp.210-1, no.369 and PROME, roll 12, appendix, no. 390.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4660
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.210-1, no.369 (full edition and Latin summary)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 390 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062911/

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