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Abbot and convent of Our Lady of York (St Mary's, York). King and council. The abbot...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/171/8513

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This record is about the Abbot and convent of Our Lady of York (St Mary's, York). King and council. The abbot... dating from [1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/171/8513
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and convent of Our Lady of York (St Mary's, York).
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The abbot and convent request allowance in the debt that they owe to the king from the last tenth in which the abbot was collector against the sum owed to them for grain taken for the use of the king' castle at Barnard Castle by Castre and Druel.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer by writ of Chancery that when they have viewed the account of Castre and Druel of the issue of the castle and the victuals there, if they find that they were answered to the king, they should make allowance to the abbot for the value of the corn.
Places mentioned
York
Barnard Castle, [County Durham]
Gainford, [County Durham]
Bishopric of Durham.
People mentioned
John de Castre, keeper of the castle of Barnard Castle
William Druel.
Note
The petition dates to 1327 as the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer were ordered to make allowance to the abbot on 7 March 1327 (CCR 1327-30, p.66).
Related material

For a related petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/81/4025

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. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.66 (order to allow the sum in the abbot's debt)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294378/

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