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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Adam Orleton, Bishop of Worcester. Orleton Adam King. Bishop of Worcester Adam, Bishop...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/147/7303
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/147/7303
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Adam Orleton, Bishop of Worcester.
- Name(s)
- Orleton, Adam
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- Bishop of Worcester
- Nature of request
- Adam, Bishop of Worcester, formerly Bishop of Hereford, makes two requests:1) He states that he is being distrained by the Sheriff of Worcestershire for the second year of the biennial tenth granted by the clergy to the pope, that is, for the King's father's sixteenth year, as in that year the temporalities of the diocese of Hereford were in the King's hand, and remained there for a further two years. He asks to be exonerated from this.2) He states that he is being distrained by the Sheriff of Worcestershire for the tenth granted by the clergy to the King in his first year, that is, for the tenth for his temporalities in the archdeaconry of Worcester, which was granted while he was overseas on the King's business. He asks to be exonerated from this.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] The one and the other are to be done in the manner that the petitions request.[On dorse] It is agreed that the one and the other petition are to be granted in the manner that they request.
- Places mentioned
- Hereford diocese
- Worcester diocese
- Worcester archdeaconry
- Worcestershire.
- People mentioned
- Edward [II], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition would seem to date from c. 1328, shortly after Adam Orleton's translation to Worcester. It cannot in any case be later than 1333, when he was translated to Winchester.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209487/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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