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Prior and convent of Hayling. King and council. [The petition is badly damaged and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/159/7908

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SC 8/159/7908
Date
[? c. 1334]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and convent of Hayling.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[The petition is badly damaged and the contents and identity of the petitioners is based on a guard note]The prior and convent request that they be discharged of the provision of the sustenance of the additional individual sent to them by the king.
Nature of endorsement
If they are able to show that they ought not be charged except for one, then they ought to be discharged of the other.
Places mentioned
[Hayling, [Hampshire]].
People mentioned
Simon [Bacon].
Note
If the guard note is correct in its identification of the petitioners and the contents of the petition then the petition dates to c. 1334 as Simon Bacoun was sent by the king to Hayling priory on 1 February 1334 (CCR 1333-7, p.293).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.293 (the king sends Simon Bacoun to Hayling priory)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210100/

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