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The Master and Brothers of St Nicholas's Hospital without Carlisle. The King. The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/100/4959

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Reference
SC 8/100/4959
Date
[c. 1305]
Description
Petitioners
The Master and Brothers of St Nicholas's Hospital without Carlisle.
Addressees
The King.
Nature of request
The petitioners seek exoneration from being charged again with rent they have already paid, and state that the king has the advowson of their hospital, which has been burnt and destroyed by the warfare of the Scots. They have been wrongfully distrained by the sheriff of Cumberland for £80 0s 7d, for arrears on a farm of the king in the suburb of Carlisle, from which the hospital was acquitted by an inquest held before Normanville and Dacre in Carlisle by the king's writ in year thirteen of the king, as fully explained in the same inquest that is in the keeping of Kirkeby at the exchequer. They ask that the king have regard to the poverty of their estate and to order the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to make further enquiry, and if the inquest acquits the petitioners of the said arrears then they are to be discharged of the same.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram Consilio.2) For the Master and Brothers of the Hospital of St Nicholas without Carlisle.3) Let them have licence from chancery to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that they inspect the inquest and do what is to be done.
Places mentioned
Carlisle, [Cumberland]
Cumberland
Scotland.
People mentioned
Thomas de Normanville
Randolf de Dacre
John de Kirkeby.
Note
This petition and SC 8/100/4954 (datable 1305) seem to have been partially endorsed at the same time, as some of the writing on the dorses of both is identical.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/100/4954

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1740
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149526/

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