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Prior and convent of Newstead in Sherwood. King. The Prior and convent of Newstead...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/280/13985

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This record is about the Prior and convent of Newstead in Sherwood. King. The Prior and convent of Newstead... dating from [? 1330] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/280/13985
Date
[? 1330]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and convent of Newstead in Sherwood.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Prior and convent of Newstead in Sherwood request that they be released from the yearly rent which they pay for waste in the fee of Peverel in the hay of Linby, as the King previously granted them at Newstead, London and Northampton.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] For the prior of Newstead in Sherwood.
Places mentioned
Newstead in Sherwood (Newstead), [Nottinghamshire]
Linby [Nottinghamshire]
London
Northampton, [Northamptonshire].
Note
Dated on the guard to? 1330, with reference to CPR 1330-4, p. 3, a remission in free almoin to the petitioners of the rent of £4 payable for 180 acres of waste in the hay of Linby.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Royal letters 4670.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.3 (remission in frank almoin to the petitioners of the rent of £4 payable for 180 acres of waste in the hay of Linby in Sherwood Forest)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517936/

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