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Bishop of Chester. King. Bishop of Chester Petition in 3 parts:]1) The bishop requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/270/13477
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/270/13477
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1312]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Bishop of Chester.
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- Bishop of Chester
- Nature of request
- Petition in 3 parts:]1) The bishop requests that it is commanded that allowance is made to him in £130 if it be found that he is in arrears in tenths and other things.2) He requests that Spigurnel, Scrope and Norwich or two of them be assigned to enquire of what goods of the bishop's came to the hand of the king when the bishop was arrested, and what came to others, and that those goods that did not come to the king be restored to the bishop.3) He requests that he be paid for a sum that Chagele had of him for expenses in Rome, and which was taken from Chartle and spent in the Wardrobe, and he can have it either from the first issues of the customs of Boston, or from Bloxham or from elsewhere.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Boston, [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- Henry Spigurnel
- Henry de Scrop (Scrope)
- Walter de Norwiz (Norwich)
- John de Chartle, clerk of the bishop
- John de Blohom (Bloxham), keeper of the lands of the Templars.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1312 as the three requests made in the petition were answered on 15 March 1312 (CCR 1307-13, pp.413, 415; CPR 1307-13, p.473).
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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 II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), p.413 (order to acquit the bishop of the sum demanded for the tenth) & p.415 (order to Bloxham to pay Chagele his money)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.473 (commission to Spigurnel and the others to enquire of the bishop's goods)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517424/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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