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Nuns of the house of Our Lady of Clerkenwell. King and council. [A petition torn...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/157/7837

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Reference
SC 8/157/7837
Date
[? c. 1337]
Description
Petitioners
Nuns of the house of Our Lady of Clerkenwell.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[A petition torn in two with the lower portion being added from Chancery unsorted Miscellanea].The nuns request that it be granted to them that they be quit of all manner of tallages and contributions to chevage, and of all pleas concerning the forest. They also request confirmation of their liberties.
Nature of endorsement
Coram domino rege because it is of the king's grace.
Places mentioned
Clerkenwell, [Middlesex]
London.
Note
A lengthy note on the guard dates this to? c. 1337 on the basis of the confirmation of the confirmation made in the charter rolls on 20 March 1337 (CChR 1327-41, pp.397-398). However, the guard note then goes on to discount this dating (and the attribution of the confirmation to this petition made in Cartulary of St Mary Clerkenwell, ed. by W.O. Hassall, Camden Third Ser., vol. LXXI, 1949, p.13, note b) suggesting that the charter roll confirmation was for SC 8/98/4859, and not for this petition. The guard note proposes that this petition represents an earlier unsuccessful attempt to obtain a confirmation, and on this basis the cautious dating of? c. 1337 is accepted.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioners asking for confirmation of their charters, see SC 8/98/4859

For copies of the charters for confirmation, see SC 8/98/4860

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. IV, 1-14 Edw III, 1327-1341, (Public Record Office, 1912), pp.397-398 (inspeximus and confirmation of charters of the nuns of Clerkenwell)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210029/

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