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John Roland, parson of Portland. Roland John King. Portland, [Dorset] Salisbury diocese...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/230/11473

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This record is about the John Roland, parson of Portland. Roland John King. Portland, [Dorset] Salisbury diocese... dating from [c. 1416] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/230/11473
Date
[c. 1416]
Description
Petitioners
John Roland, parson of Portland.
Name(s)
Roland, John
Addressees
King.
Places mentioned
Portland, [Dorset]
Salisbury diocese
Dorset archdeaconry.
Nature of request
Roland requests that he be pardoned the payment of the tenth granted in the archdeaconry of Dorset and that he be granted a writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer for him to be discharged because of the burning, waste and destruction done there by the enemy.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1416 as the petition was formerly in Chancery Files 548 and the other petitions from that file in this SC 8 file date to 1416. The church was certainly exempted from the payment of the two tenths collected in 1418 (CPR 1416-22, p.179).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Chancery Files 548.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen V, vol. II, 1416-1422, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.179 (exemption of the church of Portland)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335032/

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