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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior and Convent of Durham. King and great council. The prior and convent of Durham...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/107/5336
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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 [1376-1377] 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 8/107/5336
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1376-1377]
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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 that the king support their efforts to secure the appropriation of the church of Hemingbrough, for which they were given leave by his grandfather Edward [I] and by him, bearing in mind 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
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Hemingbrough, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Simonburn, [Northumberland]
- Windsor, [Berkshire]
- Durham, [County Durham].
- People mentioned
- Edward [I], King of England.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For an almost identical and slightly later version of this petition see SC 8/107/5315
For a related petition see SC 8/106/5265
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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 2825
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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.195-7 (no.145) (full edition of petition with references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149906/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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