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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbots of the Cistercian order in England. King and council. The abbots of the Cistercian...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/263/13133
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This record is about the Abbots of the Cistercian order in England. King and council. The abbots of the Cistercian... dating from [c. 1290] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/263/13133
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1290]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbots of the Cistercian order in England.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The abbots of the Cistercian order in England request that:1) the King grant that they may enter their own fees and profit from them, so that they are not alienated to strangers;2) whereas they are all generally absolved by their privileges from all the power of ordinaries so that none can excommunicate them nor summon them other than on matters of faith, that the king grant them that no letter of caption may issue against persons belonging to their order through the wrongful procurement of ordinaries and, if any is obtained, that it be invalid except in the case of faith;3) whereas they and their servants used to be quit of payments for permission to cross the sea, that the King grant that they may be free and quit this side of the sea as they are the other side.
- Nature of endorsement
- Before the king. For the abbots of the Cistercian order.1) The king is not advised at present to grant this but if anyone wishes to make a specific request the king will take advice on it.2) On the matter of caption let the customary procedure be followed.3) As to the payment for passage let past practice be followed.Before the king on membrane 4.
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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. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.51b (no.69) (Latin edition of 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), roll 02, appendix nos.84, 85, 86 (edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517079/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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