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Prior and convent of Monkton Farleigh. King and council. 1) The prior and convent...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/314/E129
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/314/E129
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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 convent of Monkton Farleigh.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- 1) The prior and convent request that they can have again the land that they held at farm in Wiltshire and Lincolnshire from the Ladies of Marteny as they held it at farm from them until the war with France and then paid the farm to the Exchequer until it was alleged by Welby that the lands were alienated without licence and taken into the king's hand.2) They request grace and remedy as the escheator has taken other parts of their land not held from the Ladies of Martigny with ploughs and beasts in the vill of Slaughterford.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- By the hand of G. de Roubyri to the parliament at Westminster in the octave of St John the Baptist, anno 30.2) At the Exchequer.3) The escheator was called on Monday and came and said that he took the tenement into the hand of the king by writ of Chancery, and afterwards the tenement was committed to William de Welby and delivered to him by writ of Exchequer, etc.. And therefore let the petition be sent to the Exchequer.4) At the Exchequer.5) S [Exchequer].
- Places mentioned
- Monkton Farleigh, [Wiltshire]
- Wiltshire
- Lincolnshire
- London
- York
- Marcigny-les-Nonnains, [Lyonnais, France]
- Slaughterford, [Wiltshire].
- People mentioned
- Ladies of Marcigny-les-Nonnains
- William de Welleby (Welby)
- Walter de Gloucestre (Gloucester), escheator south of the Trent
- G. de Roubyri (Rubery).
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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. In addition, this petition has further dating evidence on the dorse confirming this dating to the summer of 1302.
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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/C9529180/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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