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Brethren of St Lazarus of Jerusalem. King and council. The petitioners seek a writ...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/57/2818

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This record is about the Brethren of St Lazarus of Jerusalem. King and council. The petitioners seek a writ... dating from [1290] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/57/2818
Date
[1290]
Description
Petitioners
Brethren of St Lazarus of Jerusalem.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The petitioners seek a writ to Henry de Durem to deliver to them full seisin of the hospital of St Giles (outside the city of London) and a charter from the king confirming the same. They show that the king's father granted them 40 marks per year, which payments are in arrears of 700 marks. It was ordered by king and council at the previous parliament after St Hilary that they should be denied release of all their arrears, rather that they have 80 marks now at Easter, and in perpetual alms the aforesaid hospital, with appurtenant houses, advowsons, dues and customs, and that they bring to parliament their previous charters from the king's ancestors.
Nature of endorsement
Whereas otherwise enrolled.
Places mentioned
St Giles Hospital [without Cripplegate], [London].
People mentioned
Henry III, King of England
Edward I, King of England
Henry de Durem
[John Kirkby], Bishop of Ely, Treasurer.
Note
Datable by reference to the duplicate of this petition, SC 8/97/4812, and its context in Rot. Parl. Vol. I, p. 53a.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/54/2654

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4741
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.53a (Latin summary of related petition SC 8/97/4812)
  • 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 02, appendix, nos 103 and 104 (translation of related petition SC 8/97/4812)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063038/

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