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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Converted Jews of the king's house of London. King. [Petition in three parts].1)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5971
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/120/5971
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1290]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Converted Jews of the king's house of London.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- [Petition in three parts].1) The converted Jews request that a writ is directed to the treasurer of the Temple and of the Hospital to search the muniments of the converts, and if anything is found that it be delivered to them to aid them before the king when they need to show them. The bishop of Ely was commanded to extract their muniments from the Temple and Hospital if therein, for their churches and other property but they are disturbed by the death of the bishop.2) The Jews of London request that provision is made for their sustenance, as they have very little certain income from their house, 80 marks from the Exchequer at pleasure, and the chevage of the Jews which is insufficient to sustain half the 80 heads who reside in the house unless they have the deodands as they used to have. And if they cannot have this that they be granted a sum from the Jewry of England for their support, and they request that someone is assigned to their house to govern them well.3) They understand that Stamford or Isden or other good men of Chancery would be sufficient for the keeping of their house.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.2) The king will provide, as place and time require.3) If it is so that the king has not given it elsewhere then they are to have it.
- Places mentioned
- London.
- People mentioned
- Bishop of Ely
- Richard de Stamford
- William de Isden.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1290 as it is included on the parliament roll for the Easter parliament of 1290 and the petition seems to be answered by entries in the patent rolls concerning the grant of deodands and the appointment of a warden (Rot. Parl. Vol. I, p.49a; CPR 1281-92, pp.363, 392).
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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 4880
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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)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.363 (grant to the converts of the deodands in continuance of a previous grant) & p.392 (appointment of Walter de Amersham as warden)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.49a (no.43) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 02, appendix, nos 46-9 (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150664/
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