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Thomas del Chaumbre (Chamber) and his fellow farmers of Bishopwearmouth church. Chaumbre...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/101/5024

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Reference
SC 8/101/5024
Date
[c. 1378]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas del Chaumbre (Chamber) and his fellow farmers of Bishopwearmouth church.
Name(s)
Chaumbre (Chamber), Thomas
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
The petitioners ask for consideration of damages and order that an exception be made for farmers of churches leased from foreigners before this present parliament, or otherwise order that they can occupy the churches for one year until they have fully levied their profits, since they must of necessity be charged to pay the farms of the current year. They show that they have farmed Bishopwearmouth Church for a year from Pelegrin for certain terms of which two remain. A petition was submitted in the present parliament that no liege of the king be servant, proctor, or farmer of cardinals or other foreigners for benefices in the kingdom on pain of life and limb and forfeiture of their goods. If granted in general this would result in great loss to the petitioners in respect of this year's tithes, wheat sown and work done in the glebe, and many others in the realm are in the same situation, and all such farmers will be anathematised and lose great sums in which they are bound to the papal chamber if they do not pay their farm, both for the time when they take no profits from the churches and when they take profits.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Bishopwearmouth, [County Durham]
Durham, [County Durham].
People mentioned
Raymond Pelegrin
[Robert de Geneva], Cardinal Priest of the Twelve Apostles.
Note
Dated by Fraser, Northern Petitions, pp.197-9 (no.146).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1905
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.197-9 (no.146) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149592/

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