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Chancery clerks. King and council. Chancery clerks The petition states that although...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/261/13009
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/261/13009
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Chancery clerks.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Chancery clerks
- Nature of request
- The petition states that although it had been ordained by the King's progenitors from time immemorial that the Chancellor would give those benefices in the King's gift and worth 20 marks and less to Chancery clerks, for their long service, when the Bishop of Lincoln became Chancellor he gave these benefices to his clerks only, contrary to the King's wish and to this ordinance. It asks that future Chancellors might give these benefices to Chancery clerks, as was the former custom, and that this might be done through the choice of the Masters of Chancery.
- Nature of endorsement
- This bill is to be delivered to the King, and it seems to the council that he should order the Chancellor that it future he should give these benefices to the King's clerks of Chancery, the Exchequer, and the two Benches, and not to others.
- People mentioned
- [Henry Burghersh], Bishop of Lincoln, Chancellor of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Ascribed to the November parliament of 1330 by Rot. Parl. vol. II p.41b (no.51), and confirmed as belonging to that year by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 51.Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln, was Chancellor of England between July 1328 and November 1330.
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.41b (no.51) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
- 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.31-51, no.51 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9516953/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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