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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Guychard de Jou, Prior of Montacute. de Jou Guychard King. Prior of Montacute Brother...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/194/9666
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This record is about the Guychard de Jou, Prior of Montacute. de Jou Guychard King. Prior of Montacute Brother... dating from [c. 1328] 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 8/194/9666
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Guychard de Jou, Prior of Montacute.
- Name(s)
- de Jou, Guychard
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- Prior of Montacute
- Nature of request
- Brother Guychard, Prior of Montacute, asks the King to write to Cardinal Peter de Mortymer recommending him to him as a friend, as the Cardinal is stirring up controversy in his Priory by claiming to have a papal provision to be Prior; although when he acquired it brother Guychard had already been Prior for some time, at the presentation of the Abbot of Cluny, and the Cardinal's proctors have been told by the council that it would be to the prejudice of the King and his crown to receive him.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Montacute, [Somerset]
- Cluny, [Burgundy, France].
- People mentioned
- Cardinal Peter de Mortymer (Mortimer)
- Abbot of Cluny
- [Edward II], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR p.1327-30 p.330 is dated 22 October 1328, and this petition would seem to date from around the same time.
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.330 (order to the escheator not to intermeddle further with the temporalities of the priory because of this false presentation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295552/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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