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Prior and convent of Bridlington. King and council. The prior and convent request...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/154/7661

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Reference
SC 8/154/7661
Date
[1318]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and convent of Bridlington.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The prior and convent request that the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer be commanded to make allowance to them for a sum owed to them by the king for grain and sheep taken from them in a sum that they owe to the king.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that . . . sufficient by letters of the king or in another manner that the king is bound to them as the petition alleges then they should make allowance in the debts in the possession of the king by reason of the goods . . . clerical taxation . . .
Places mentioned
Bridlington, [North Riding of Yorkshire].
Note
Dated by the appearance of a summary on the parliament roll to the York parliament of October 1318.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.31 (summary of petition and response on parliament roll)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209850/

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