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Dean and chapter of Chichester cathedral, sub-collectors in the diocese of Chichester....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/99/4935
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/99/4935
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1319]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Dean and chapter of Chichester cathedral, sub-collectors in the diocese of Chichester.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The Dean and chapter of Chichester cathedral, sub-collectors of the tenths granted to the King in the diocese of Chichester state that they are being charged by the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer for the tenths from certain parsons and vicars, whose names do not appear in the rolls of the pope or of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester, formerly chief collectors of this tenth, because of their poverty and inability to pay. They ask for a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, that if the former chief collectors can inform them that the names were removed from the rolls for this reason, they might be discharged of this sum.
- Nature of endorsement
- The Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are to be ordered by writ that if they can establish, from inspection of the rolls of the principal collectors of the tenths granted to the king, and likewise of the tenths imposed upon the clergy of England, that the names of the rectors and vicars contained in the schedule sewn to this petition, and also the names of their benefices, have been extracted and removed from the said rolls because of the poverty of their benefices, as is contained in the petition, and that the aforesaid Dean and chapter remain charged at the Exchequer with 101s. 4d. of the individual tenths granted to the King because of the aforesaid benefices, then the aforesaid names are to be extracted from the rolls of assessment of benefices in the diocese of Chichester, situated in the Exchequer, and the dean and chapter are to be discharged and acquitted of the aforesaid money.
- Places mentioned
- Chichester diocese.
- People mentioned
- Bishop of Lincoln
- Bishop of Winchester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to the parliament of May 1319 by Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined. pp.82-83.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the schedule containing the list of benefices mentioned in the petition, see SC 8/99/4936
For transcript, see no.18 of PRO 31/7/95
For a transcript of this petition on a roll of petitions, see C 49/4/25
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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 1653
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp.82-83 (full edition of petition from C 49/4/25)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149502/
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