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Abbot of St Augustine's Canterbury, and the convent. King and Council. Abbot of St...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/100/4966
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/100/4966
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of St Augustine's Canterbury, and the convent.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Occupation
- Abbot of St Augustine's Canterbury
- Nature of request
- The petitioners appeal to the king as their defender concerning certain grievances and for the deliverance from imprisonment of their servants and to defend them in Rome. They show that custody of vacant churches are of their advowson of right and custom from time without memory, but now Langton asserts that custody of these churches belongs to him by reason of his archdeaconry. Corour, Wyvelesbergh, Appelgar, Nyton, Sprot, Godefrey, Burgeys, Bertone, Lamb, Fuller, Sprot, Wyvelesbergh, Belham, and Roming, their servants sent to collect the issues of the vacant churches have been excommunicated by the archdeacon, and at the suggestion of the archbishop the sheriff has imprisoned them in the king's gaol pending an appeal to the court of Rome.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let them have a writ from chancery according to the type of dispute etc.
- Places mentioned
- Canterbury, [Kent]
- St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, [Kent] Willesborough, [Kent]
- Rome, [Italy].
- People mentioned
- John de Langton, Archdeacon of Canterbury
- Richard le Corour of Canterbury
- Thomas [de Wyvelesbergh], son of John de Wyvelesbergh
- Thomas Appelgar
- William de Nyton
- Thomas Sprot
- Richard Godefrey
- William Burgeys
- John de Bertone
- William Lamb
- Richard le Fuller
- Roger Sprot
- Michael [de Wyvelesbergh], son of William de Quelesbergh
- Thomas de Belham
- Simon Romyng
- [Robert Winchelsey], Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Firmly datable by reference to CCR 1302-7, pp. 254-5; see also PROME, 1305, Lent parliament, appendix, evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery and exchequer enrolments and other sources, no.46.
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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 1756
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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)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.255 (outcome of petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 1305, Lent parliament, appendix, evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery and exchequer enrolments and other sources, no.46
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149533/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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