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Prior and convent of Our Lady of Carlisle. King. The prior and convent request that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/84/4170

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This record is about the Prior and convent of Our Lady of Carlisle. King. The prior and convent request that... dating from [c. 1334] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/84/4170
Date
[c. 1334]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and convent of Our Lady of Carlisle.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The prior and convent request that the king pardon them the account and the debt they owe him for victuals which they had in their keeping and used as they have been ruined by the Scottish wars, and because the king has granted a pardon of the debt that the people of Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumberland for victuals bought in the time of the king's father. They are now distrained in the Exchequer to account for the victuals.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege et magno consilio.2) They are to have respite to the feast of Michaelmas next and meanwhile they are to come before the king and have grace.
Places mentioned
Carlisle, [Cumberland]
Cumberland
Westmorland
Northumberland.
Related material

For a petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/40/1973

For another petition by the same petitioners see SC 8/83/4135

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2199
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.306 (order to the treasurer and barons to give respite)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148712/

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