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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Geoffrey St Osyth, Abbot of Colchester. St Osyth Geoffrey King and Council Abbot...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/100/4987
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This record is about the Geoffrey St Osyth, Abbot of Colchester. St Osyth Geoffrey King and Council Abbot... dating from [c. 1381] 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 8/100/4987
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1381]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Geoffrey St Osyth, Abbot of Colchester.
- Name(s)
- St Osyth, Geoffrey
- Addressees
- King and Council
- Occupation
- Abbot of Colchester
- Nature of request
- The petitioner asks that now, in this present parliament, he should be granted the ability to account at the exchequer for certain sums received. He states that the Bishop of London commissioned the Abbot of Waltham, the Prior of Holy Trinity, London, and the petitioner, to levy in the diocese of London certain financial gifts granted to the king by his clergy in the last parliament. Thereafter, the same bishop by another commission appointed the petitioner to levy such sums in the archdeanery of Colchester, on pain of excommunication not to meddle or levy elsewhere. The petitioner was ready to account to the exchequer, but the barons of the exchequer want no account other than that for the entire diocese.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Colchester, [Essex].
- People mentioned
- [William Courtney], Bishop of London
- Abbot of Waltham
- Prior of Holy Trinity, London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard from internal evidence.
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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 1811
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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/C9149554/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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