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Prior and Convent of Durham. King and great council. The prior and convent of Durham...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/107/5315

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Reference
SC 8/107/5315
Date
[c. 1377]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and Convent of Durham.
Addressees
King and great council.
Nature of request
The prior and convent of Durham request the renewal of letters of Edward I granting them £40 annually from the wool subsidy at Berwick which they surrendered to Edward III in return for a grant that they might appropriate the church of Hemingbrough. They have been prevented by the pope from having the appropriation and ask that the king have regard for the great poverty they suffer as a result of the appropriation of Simonburn church to the king's free chapel of Windsor and the loss of their cell of Coldingham to the Scots.
Nature of endorsement
Let the indentures and other evidences be brought, and the king on advice of his council will deal reasonably with this matter.
Places mentioned
Hemingbrough, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
Simonburn, [Northumberland]
Windsor, [Berkshire]
Durham, [County Durham]
Coldingham, [Berwickshire, Scotland].
People mentioned
Edward [I], King of England
Edward [III], King of England.
Note
Clearly addressed to Richard II, and on the basis of a similar petition of c. 1376-7 (SC 8/107/5336) probably dating from the beginning of his reign. See also Fraser, Northern Petitions, pp. 195-7.
Related material

For an almost identical petition of slightly earlier date see SC 8/107/5336

For a related petition see SC 8/106/5265

For transcript, see no.48 of PRO 31/7/110

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2780
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.195-197 (edition of similar petition, with cross-reference to this one)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149885/

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