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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Clergy of the bishopric of Durham. King. The clergy request that the tenth granted...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/82/4095
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This record is about the Clergy of the bishopric of Durham. King. The clergy request that the tenth granted... dating from [1320] 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 8/82/4095
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Clergy of the bishopric of Durham.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The clergy request that the tenth granted to the king by the pope be levied according to the last taxation, because the bishopric has been destroyed and impoverished by the coming of the Scots, and the clergy are unable to raise such sums from their benefices according to the other assessment.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- The king has granted at this time that the tenth be given according to the new taxation saving his right at other times.2) Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Durham diocese.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition appears to date to 1320, probably postdating an order to the bishop of Durham on a related matter (CCR 1318-23, p.69).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a similar petition from the bishopric of Carlisle, which alludes to the response to this petition, see SC 8/18/871
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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 2853
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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)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.69 (order to the bishop of Durham to certify the bishops of Winchester and Exeter of the taxation that the king ordered him to make of the benefices wasted by the Scots)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), p.213 (no.157) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148635/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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