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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward II from the Abbot and convent of Tupholme,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/197/9804
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward II from the Abbot and convent of Tupholme,... dating from [c. 1317] 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 8/197/9804
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1317]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter to Edward II from the Abbot and convent of Tupholme, stating that the King has written to them, asking them to give his servant Robert de Crouland sustenance in their house for term of life, or to explain to him why they have not done so in response to his previous request, and saying that, although they would gladly obey him in all things, their very small income is already heavily burdened with the charge of finding a chaplain to say mass for the soul of Piers de Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, and they have further been impoverished by flooding, diseases of their livestock and buying corn and malt for their sustenance, so that they have fallen into debt. They therefore ask the King to excuse them from this charge, asking him to verify the truth of what they have said from their neighbours.
- Nature of endorsement
- To our lord the King, from his chaplains of Tupholm.
- Places mentioned
- Tupholme, [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- Edward [II], King of England
- Abbot and convent of Tupholme
- Robert de Crouland (Crowland), servant of Edward II
- Piers de Gavaston (Gaveston), Earl of Cornwall.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1313-18 p.463 is dated 12 May 1317. This would seem to postdate this petition, unless Reading too was unable to take Crouland: in any case, the petition would seem to date from around this 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 II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.463 (provision for the maintenance of Robert de Crouland at Reading Abbey)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295692/
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