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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Adam de Agmodesham (Amersham), parson of the church of St Thomas, Winchelsea. de...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/275/13742
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This record is about the Adam de Agmodesham (Amersham), parson of the church of St Thomas, Winchelsea. de... dating from [1305] 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 8/275/13742
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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
- Adam de Agmodesham (Amersham), parson of the church of St Thomas, Winchelsea.
- Name(s)
- de Agmodesham (Amersham), Adam
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- parson of the church of St Thomas, Winchelsea
- Nature of request
- [Petition in 2 parts:]1) Agmodesham requests that the tithes of fish that pertain to his church be rendered to him as the king takes all the tithes and there is nothing else to sustain him.2) He requests grace as the abbot of Fecamp exchanged the town of Winchelsea with the king for lands elsewhere, and the abbot holds the church to his own use, the tithes only excepted which are held to the use of the king.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.2) Let the bailiff of Winchelsea be called, and he is to inform the king about his right etc. namely by writ of Chancery.3) To the lord chancellor
- Places mentioned
- Winchelsea, [Sussex].
- People mentioned
- Abbot of Fecamp.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1305 as a Latin summary of the petition was enrolled on the section of the parliament roll which was produced for the Lent parliament of 1305 (PROME, roll 12, Introduction, and Appendix, no.87).
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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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- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.53-4 (no.86) (Latin summary and full 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 12, appendix, no.87 (full edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517689/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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