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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Simon Meopham, Archbishop of Canterbury. Meopham Simon King. Archbishop of Canterbury...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/97/4840
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This record is about the Simon Meopham, Archbishop of Canterbury. Meopham Simon King. Archbishop of Canterbury... dating from [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 8/97/4840
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Simon Meopham, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Name(s)
- Meopham, Simon
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- Archbishop of Canterbury
- Nature of request
- Simon, Archbishop of Canterbury, states that as a result of the charter that the King granted them in his first parliament, the Barons of the Cinq Ports have accroached and attracted to themselves his tenants in various parts of Kent, to his disinheritance and that of his church, and also to the disinheritance of the King, who has the profits of these tenants in times of vacancy. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- With regard to the fact that they accroach and attract to themselves by virtue of the charter the tenants who are of the gildable, a writ is to be issued for the King to the Barons of the Cinq Ports, forbidding them to make such accroachments in future and a process is further to take place by attachments.And with regard to the Archbishop, he can distrain his tenants for his services and also sue at common law against the people of the Cinq Ports.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Sandwich, [Kent]
- Sarre, [Kent]
- St Nicholas at Wade, [Kent]
- Isle of Thanet, [Kent]
- Hythe, [Kent]
- Saltwood, [Kent]
- Romney, [Kent]
- Lydd [Kent].
- People mentioned
- Barons of the Cinque Ports.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- From the reference to the King's first parliament, this petition would seem to date from c. 1328. It must in any case have been submitted before Simon Meopham's death in 1333.
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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 1396
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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/C9149407/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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