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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior and convent of Merton. [None]. The Prior and convent of Merton, who with their...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/276/13755
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This record is about the Prior and convent of Merton. [None]. The Prior and convent of Merton, who with their... 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 8/276/13755
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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
- Prior and convent of Merton.
- Addressees
- [None].
- Nature of request
- The Prior and convent of Merton, who with their men are distrained for tallage in Buckinghamshire and elsewhere, request that they be quit of all kinds of tallage as they have been since the making of the charters granted by the King's ancestors, which state that they are to be as free as any house of religion in England and free of every secular demand and all kinds of annoyances and secular customs excepting only jurisdiction over life and members.
- Nature of endorsement
- The treasurer and barons of the Exchequer should be ordered by writ of Chancery to do justice, after having seen the charter etc.
- Places mentioned
- Merton, [Surrey]
- Buckinghamshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1305 since it is included with the petitions for this year (PROME, roll 12, appendix, no.200).
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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.117-8 (no.190) (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.200 (full edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517702/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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