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Abbot and Convent of Reading. [Not specified] The Abbot and convent of Reading request...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/184/9184B

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This record is about the Abbot and Convent of Reading. [Not specified] The Abbot and convent of Reading request... dating from [c. 1290] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/184/9184B
Date
[c. 1290]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and Convent of Reading.
Addressees
[Not specified]
Nature of request
The Abbot and convent of Reading request payment of a mark of gold which King John granted to their house out of his Exchequer for the maintenance of a light on the high altar. Henry III commuted this by charter to 10 marks of silver.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] They should be heard in the Exchequer of London as to why they have not been paid.
Places mentioned
Reading, [Berkshire]
London.
People mentioned
John, King of England
Edward I, King of England
Henry III, King of England.
Note
This petition clearly relates to the same matter as SC 8/69/3449-50, which have been ascribed by Richardson and Sayles to the Easter parliament of 1290 ('The English Parliament in the Middle Ages' (London, 1981), XIX, pp.146-7), while PROME, Roll 2, Appendix, no.218 suggests that this is earlier than those two petitions.
Related material

For a similar petition from the same petitioners, see SC 8/69/3449

For a near-duplicate of that petition with only minor differences, see SC 8/69/3450

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Royal Letters 1263
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.61a (no.186) (Latin summary of related petition on parliament roll)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 02, appendix, no. 218 (full edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295062/

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