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Thomas, Prior of Michelham. Thomas King and Council of Parliament. Prior of Michelham...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/125/6229
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This record is about the Thomas, Prior of Michelham. Thomas King and Council of Parliament. Prior of Michelham... dating from [1385] 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 8/125/6229
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1385]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas, Prior of Michelham.
- Name(s)
- Thomas
- Addressees
- King and Council of Parliament.
- Occupation
- Prior of Michelham
- Nature of request
- The Prior of Michelham states that the King had granted him the keeping of the alien priory of Wilmington for the duration of the war. The Prior undertook this despite the great costs, which have been borne by his house. However, the King has now granted the farm of the priory to James de Berners, and the Prior had been ousted, to his great loss. He therefore requests that the patent to Berners be repealed, and the same patent be re-granted to him.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Michelham, [Sussex]
- Wilmington, [Sussex].
- People mentioned
- Prior of Wilmington
- James de Berners, knight.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Berners was appointed as keeper on 6 October 1385 (CPR 1385-9, p.27), and the Prior of Michelham was granted leave to remove his goods on 19 December 1385 (CPR 1385-9, p.70). That grant was explicitly in response to a petition, although that petition (presumably presented to the parliament of October 1385) does not appear to be the present document. That petition was said to relate to the Prior being distrained for his farm by summons of the Exchequer, which is not mentioned in the present petition, but given the timescale involved (6 October to 19 December 1385), presumably the Prior made two petitions to the parliament of October 1385, the present one requesting the return of the farm, and, after that request was rejected, a later one regarding the Exchequer distraint for his farm.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.67 of PRO 31/7/109
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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 5482
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.70 (grant to the Prior of Michelham that he may have and dispose of all goods of the priory belonging to him) & p.72 (same grant with additional clauses)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208403/
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