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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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This record is about the Prior and Convent of Durham. King and great council. The prior and convent of Durham... dating from [c. 1377] 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 8/107/5315
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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
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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 2780
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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)
- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149885/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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