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Warden of the House of Converts of London. King and Council Warden of the House of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/100/4951

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Reference
SC 8/100/4951
Date
[1327-1330]
Description
Petitioners
Warden of the House of Converts of London.
Addressees
King and Council
Occupation
Warden of the House of Converts of London
Nature of request
The petitioner seeks payment of a pension of £4 per year from Shutlyngton, granted by King Edward [II] (the king's father) from the issues and profits of St Dunstan's Church. He makes it known that King Henry [III] (the king's great-grandfather) established a building in the suburb of London for converts, for the souls of his ancestors and successors, and for the maintenance of the converts and the chaplains and clerks performing divine offices for the aforesaid souls in the chapel of Our Lady in the same building. He granted the warden of the converts all the issues and profits from St Dunstan's Church, which was (and still is) in the king's patronage. From which issues the converts, chaplains etc., were fully maintained until King Edward [II] (the king's father) presented a parson to the church, paying a pension of £4 each year to the converts, chaplains etc., which pension Shutlyngton, now parson of the church (who sings in Windsor Castle) has withheld for a long time, and still does so.
Nature of endorsement
For the converts of London.
Places mentioned
London
St Dunstan's Church, [London]
Windsor Castle, [Berkshire]
House of Converts, [London]
People mentioned
Henry III, King of England
Edward II, King of England
Robert de Shutlyngton, Parson of St Dunstan's Church.
Note
Datable on internal evidence to the reign of Edward III, and necessarily before 1330, when the church of St Dunstan changed hands (CPR 1330-4, p. 12)..
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1698
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Jews of Medieval England, M Adler, (, 1939), pp.360-1 (full edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149518/

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