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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior and monks of Mendham. King and council. The prior and monks, whose house is...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/314/E125
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This record is about the Prior and monks of Mendham. King and council. The prior and monks, whose house is... dating from [1302] 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 8/314/E125
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and monks of Mendham.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The prior and monks, whose house is a cell of Castle Acre, request that the king will release his demand for £20 per annum which he takes because it is intended that they are French when they are English and always have been, and only have £40 of land and rent to sustain them.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- To the Exchequer, and let justice be done there etc.2) They should have respite until the octave of Hilary, and let it be ordered to the sheriff that [. . .] etc.3) S [Exchequer].
- Places mentioned
- Mendham, [Suffolk]
- Castle Acre, [Norfolk].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
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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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.2 (summary of this file)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529176/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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