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? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward II from the Chancellor of the University of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/297/14814

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Reference
SC 8/297/14814
Date
[1316]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter to Edward II from the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the Master of the Hospital of St John, Oxford, acknowledging receipt of the King's writ (which they quote), enclosing a petition from the brothers of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford concerning wrongs done to them by Peter de Luffenham, their Warden, and ordering them to make a visitation of the hospital, to inquire into the contents of the petition and to inform the King of what they find. They enclose the inquisition taken by them as a result of this writ.
Nature of endorsement
To our Lord the King of England, from the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the Master of the Hospital of St John there.
Places mentioned
Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
Doncaster, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
Edward [II], King of England
[Henry de Harcla], Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Master of the Hospital of St John, Oxford
brothers of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford
Peter de Luffenham, Warden of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford.
Note
The writ quoted in this letter is dated 19 December, 9 Edward II (1315), and the letter itself is dated on St Hilary's day, 13 January, which would date the letter to 13 January 1316.CPR 1313-17 p.352 is dated 18 September 1315 and CCR 1313-18 pp.323-324 is dated 10 February 1316.
Related material

For the inquisition enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/297/14815

For the petition mentioned here, see SC 8/297/14813

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), pp.323-324 (ordinances for the reform of the Hospital of St Bartholomew)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.352 (grant to Peter de Luffenham of the custody of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford)
  • Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.115 (calendar of document)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518015/

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