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Monks of St Martin's, Dover. King. The monks of St Martin's, Dover request that:1)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/264/13198

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Reference
SC 8/264/13198
Date
[1322-1327]
Description
Petitioners
Monks of St Martin's, Dover.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The monks of St Martin's, Dover request that:1) whereas the King has the advowson of their church and they have been without a prior for two years, that they can have a prior from their own college, as Edward I allowed them to at their last vacancy;2) the sentence given them and the damages done to them by the prior and chapter of Holy Trinity, Canterbury after the death of Archbishop Robert by repealed by the current archbishop as was ordained in the parliament at York;3) they be allowed to receive clerks to their abbey since there is a great deficit because many brothers have died and they have had no new monks for the past six years;4) in each vacancy of the archbishopric of Canterbury neither the prior [of Canterbury] nor chapter nor archdeacon nor any other minister have or do anything in the church of Dover, and that the prior, chapter and archdeacon of Canterbury can be tried and examined in the King's court and not elsewhere.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Dover, Kent
Canterbury, [Kent]
York.
People mentioned
Edward [I], King of England
Prior and chapter of Holy Trinity, Canterbury
Robert [Winchelsey], Archbishop of Canterbury
Archdeacon of Canterbury.
Note
There is no date on the guard. The petition refers to the death of Archbishop Winchelsey (1313), to the death of their own prior (1318, see SC 8/128/6387) and to the York parliament of 1322, and so must post-date these events. Reference is made to Edward I being the King's father. The petition must therefore date between 1322 and 1327.
Related material

For a petition from the same petitioners see SC 8/82/4093

For a related history see SC 8/264/13199

For a related petition see SC 8/257/12847

For a related petition from the same petitioners see SC 8/128/6383

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517145/

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