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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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Abbot and convent of Pipewell. King and council. The Abbot and convent of Pipewell...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/66/3274
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This record is about the Abbot and convent of Pipewell. King and council. The Abbot and convent of Pipewell... dating from [1316-c. 1328] 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 8/66/3274
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1316-c. 1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of Pipewell.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The Abbot and convent of Pipewell state that their house is so impoverished for many years and now by disease among their beasts that the Abbot's predecessors have leased much of their lands and possessions on long leases, to avoid the dispersion of their community. A tenth granted by the clergy is now being demanded of them, which amounts to more than they can spend annually from all the lands remaining to them. They ask that they might be assessed according to the quantity of lands and goods in their possession, and no more be charged from them until the King has received the lay twentieth and other tallages.
- Nature of endorsement
- The King has so much need of his money that he can give them no respite.
- Places mentioned
- Pipewell, [Northamptonshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to '? c. 1323', with reference to the decision of the monks in September 1323 to abandon the abbey on the grounds of poverty (VCH Northamptonshire, II, p.119). However the later reference to the collection of a lay twentieth, seemingly at the same time as a clerical tenth, would seem to date the petition to either shortly after 1315 (when a lay twentieth and fifteenth coincided with a clerical tenth from Canterbury province) or shortly after 1327 (when a lay twentieth coincided with clerical tenths from both provinces).
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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 6644
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107045/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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