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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Walter Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter. Stapledon Walter King and council. Bishop of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/258/12856
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/258/12856
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter.
- Name(s)
- Stapledon, Walter
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Bishop of Exeter
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly damaged.]Walter, Bishop of Exeter, states that his predecessors had a tithe of the operation of stamping of tin and of the profit of the stannaries in the counties of Devon and Cornwall, but that when the profit of the stannaries was given to farmers for a certain annual sum they withheld that tithe, so that King John gave the then Bishop of Exeter a new grant of a tithe of the farm instead. But because this was also withheld, he has asked that he might have the original grant of the tithe, which is sometimes less and sometimes more than the new one. The King ordered an inquisition into this, which has been held, as can been seen from the schedule attached to this petition. He asks that justice might be done to him and his church according to the findings of this inquisition.
- Nature of endorsement
- That inquisition is to be sent to the Treasurer and Barons [of the Exchequer], and they are to be ordered by a writ of the great seal [that, when they have seen] and examined that inquisition together [with the charters] mentioned by the inquisition, [and when they have called those members of the King's council] whom it seems to them should be called, they are further [to do] justice according to [the nature of the business].
- Places mentioned
- Devon
- Cornwall
- Exeter diocese.
- People mentioned
- John, King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A Latin summary of this petition can be found on a roll belonging to the parliament of October 1318 (Docs. Illus. English History p.41).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a transcript of part of the inquisition mentioned here see SC 8/258/12877
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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)
- Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.41 (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440468/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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