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Abbot of Croxton. Council. Abbot of Croxton Request to be released from the office...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/209/10410

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Reference
SC 8/209/10410
Date
[1352]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot of Croxton.
Addressees
Council.
Occupation
Abbot of Croxton
Nature of request
Request to be released from the office of collector of clerical tenths in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire, as the abbey of Croxton is greatly impoverished by the plague and the abbot preoccupied in its welfare.
Nature of endorsement
Order for a writ to the bishop of Lincoln.
Places mentioned
Croxton, [Lincolnshire]
Leicestershire
Northamptonshire
Bedfordshire.
People mentioned
Bishop of Lincoln.
Note
Firmly datable by reference to CCR 1349-54, pp. 335-6.
Related material

For a related document see SC 8/209/10411

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IX, 1349-1354, (Public Record Office, 1906), pp.335-336 (order to the bishop of Lincoln to replace the abbot as collector)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333967/

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