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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior and canons of Marlborough. King and council. The petitioners request that it...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/60/2972
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/60/2972
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and canons of Marlborough.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request that it be ordained that they be able to have the tenth part of the victuals and the arrears according to the purport of their charter. Henry III granted and confirmed to them by his charter for their sustenance that when the king and his heirs come to the town of Marlborough and all the time that they stay there the petitioners should have a tenth of the bread, ale, fish and meat of the of the first mess of the Household. They had this until the last coming of the king when Tauton did not wish to give it without the advisement of the king and his council.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.2) Let this petition be handed over into Chancery and when the charter has been viewed there, and the treasurer called there to explain the detention of this to the monks, and the remembrances of the Wardrobe searched as the thing has been used, the Chancellor is to do justice by good council.
- Places mentioned
- Marlborough, [Wiltshire].
- People mentioned
- Robert de Tauton, Treasurer of the Wardrobe.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1334 as the right granted by Henry III was exchanged for rent in Marlborough and Savernake Forest on 1 March 1334 (CPR 1330-4, p.522).
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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 5557
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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.522 (exchange of rent in Marlborough and Savernake Forest for the right granted by Henry III)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063192/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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