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Poor sergeants having their sustenance in the house of the Temple. The petitioners...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/138/6884

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Reference
SC 8/138/6884
Date
[1315]
Description
Petitioners
Poor sergeants having their sustenance in the house of the Temple.
Nature of request
The petitioners complain that when the Temple was in the king's hands they had their sustenance there, but now that it has passed into the control of others, they have nothing.
Nature of endorsement
They are to show their deeds and muniments in chancery and will have right.
Places mentioned
Temple, [London].
Note
Datable to the parliament of January 1315 by reference to Rot. Parl., vol. I, p.319a.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.319a (no.135) (Latin summary of petition and response)
  • 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), parliament of January 1315, item 165 (135) (Latin summary of petition and response, with full translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209068/

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