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Clergy of the bishopric of Durham, of the counties of Northumberland, Westmorland...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/173/8625
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This record is about the Clergy of the bishopric of Durham, of the counties of Northumberland, Westmorland... dating from [1330] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/173/8625
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Clergy of the bishopric of Durham, of the counties of Northumberland, Westmorland and Cumberland, the archdeaconries of Richmond, Cleveland, York and the East Riding.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The clergy requests remedy as the Scottish war has devastated their goods and they are so impoverished that they are unable to fulfil their function, and although they are willing to pay the tenth, they are only willing to pay it at the true current value of their benefice. Despite this the collectors are compelling them to pay it at the ancient assessment which the clergy sued a petition to the king and council at Nottingham whereby Sovereyn was ordered to refrain from levying the tenth on their benefices until the present parliament.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Sovereyn is to be commanded to come before the council for this reason.2) Sovereyn came before them in parliament, and because the king has granted that the clergy pay only a moiety of the tenth reserved for his use according to the new assessment, Sovereyn is to write to the pope to obtain his consent in this matter, and he should not levy anything from the benefices except according to the new assessment until he has been certified on this by the pope. Let Soveryen have letters to levy the tax in this form.
- Places mentioned
- Bishopric of Durham
- Northumberland
- Westmorland
- Cumberland
- Richmond archdeaconry
- Cleveland archdeaconry
- York archdeaconry
- East Riding archdeaconry
- Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire].
- People mentioned
- John Sovereyn, collector of the tenth.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1330 as an order was issued to levy the tenth under the new assessment on 15 December 1330 (CCR 1330-3, pp.77-8).
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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 Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.77-8 (order for the collection of the tenth according to the new assessment)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.141-3 (no.109) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294491/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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