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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John of Gloucester, Prior of Llanthony Prima. Gloucester John King and council. Prior...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/171/8523
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/171/8523
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1338]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John of Gloucester, Prior of Llanthony Prima.
- Name(s)
- Gloucester, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prior of Llanthony Prima
- Nature of request
- The prior requests remedy as the king recovered the advowson of Ardcath against his predecessor by an error in the record, and although this judgment was reversed in King's Bench, nothing else has been done, and to delay the prior's right, William de Bardelby resigned [the benefice], and another has been presented by the king to the church.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let this petition be ordered into Chancery that the Chancellor is to make to come before him the tenor of the record and process which is in the place of the king, and if he finds that the errors are true and the judgment reversed, let the prior be restored to the estate which he had before the erroneous judgment, then let it be ordered by writ to the justice and chancellor of Ireland, and that if they have made any presentment to the church before the judgment is reversed, then they are to repeal the presentment and suffer the prior to have and enjoy the estate that the predecessors of the prior had before the erroneous judgment is rendered.
- Places mentioned
- Llanthony Prima, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
- Dublin, [Ireland]
- Ardcath, [County Meath, Ireland].
- People mentioned
- John de Rufford, Prior of Llanthony Prima
- William de Bardelby, [rector of the] church of Ardcath.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1338 as the petition was transcribed by Matthew Hale who ascribed a date of 1338 to the group of petitions amongst which this belongs (Rot. Parl., vol. II, pp.98b-99a (no.5)).
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.289 (brief and incomplete summary of petition)
- Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.55 (brief calendar of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.98b-99a (no.5) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294388/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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