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Prior of Hexham. Geoffrey le Scrope. Prior of Hexham The Prior of Hexham requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/307/15310
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/307/15310
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior of Hexham.
- Addressees
- Geoffrey le Scrope.
- Occupation
- Prior of Hexham
- Nature of request
- The Prior of Hexham requests that whereas the priory has been despoiled many times in the Scottish war and in relief they wish to appropriate the King's church of Alston of which they have the advowson, that Scrope will ask the chancellor or Bamburgh for a writ ad quod dampnum in this matter.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should have a writ ad quod dampnum returnable in Chancery, and when the inquisition is returned in Chancery, he may ask the King.
- Places mentioned
- Hexham, [Northumberland]
- Alston, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- Geoffrey le Scrope
- Thomas de Bamburgh.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1334 as a related petition is included on a manuscript of petitions from this year (PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 73-89, no. 20). This petition appears to precede the other.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition from the prior and convent relating to Alston, see SC 8/11/540
For another petition from the prior and convent concerning the appropriation of Alston church, see SC 8/319/E403
For another petition from the prior seeking financial aid during the dispersion, see SC 8/52/2553
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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)
- 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.73-89, no.20 (summary of references to related petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518365/
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