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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. King and council. The petitioners seek an order to...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/58/2884
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This record is about the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. King and council. The petitioners seek an order to... dating from [1331] 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 8/58/2884
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Dean and Chapter of Lichfield.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners seek an order to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to search their remembrances and divide the taxes owed from Eccleshall into three equal parts and assign each part. They state that by the king's permission and the authority of the court of Rome they have the right to divide the prebend of Eccleshall in the diocese of Lichfield into three equal parts, from which to make two new prebends, [one] called the prebend of Eccleshall and the other called the prebend of Offley (Bishop's Offley), and the third part called Slindon is appropriated to the dean and chapter forever. The petitioners have forty days for the new prebends to arrange for payments of multure and the collection of tithes in proportion.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let them have an order to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that they search their rolls and remembrances concerning this tax, and divide the tax of the prebendary into three parts and apportion to each of the [new] prebends.
- Places mentioned
- Lichfield, [Staffordshire]
- Rome, [Italy]
- Eccleshall, [Staffordshire]
- Bishop's Offley, [Staffordshire]
- Slindon, [Staffordshire].
- People mentioned
- Edward III, King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Positively dated by reference to CPR 1330-4, p. 47.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/166/8289
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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 4933
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.47 (resulting division of the tax)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063104/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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