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Executors of Gilbert de Seint Leophard (St Leofard), Bishop of Chichester. King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/258/12886
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/258/12886
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Executors of Gilbert de Seint Leophard (St Leofard), Bishop of Chichester.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The executors of Gilbert de Seint Leophard, Bishop of Chichester request a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer that they might be discharged of a sum demanded from the deceased for the fifteenth granted by the laity in the King's eighteenth year, as the bishops and clergy of the realm granted a tenth in the same year for the consecration of the Bishop of Ely, and were discharged on that account.
- Nature of endorsement
- The King has pardoned etc., and a similar grace is granted to the Bishop of Chester for his predecessor.
- Places mentioned
- Sussex.
- People mentioned
- Gilbert de Seint Leophard (St Leofard), Bishop of Chichester
- [William of Louth], Bishop of Ely
- [Walter Langton], Bishop of Chester (Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield)
- [Roger de Meuland, Mulond, Longespee], Bishop of Chester (Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A Latin summary of this petition is found on a roll of petitions from the Lent parliament of 1305 (Memoranda de Parliamento pp.59-61 (no. 98) and PROME roll 12, appendix, no. 99). CCR 1302-7 p.254 is dated 30 April 1305.
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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)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.254 (order to acquit the Bishop's executors of this sum)
- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.59-61 (no. 98) (full edition of petition, Latin summary on parliament roll, and related close roll entry)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.162a (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 99 (full edition and translation of petition and related close roll entry)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440498/
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