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Free tenants of Wisbech. King and council. The free tenants request remedy so that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/314/E148

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Reference
SC 8/314/E148
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Free tenants of Wisbech.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The free tenants request remedy so that they are not disinherited as their ancestors were at all time free of tallages or recognizances made in times of vacancy in the bishopric of Ely, but a previous keeper of the bishopric entered in his account that he had received a certain sum from them and they have been distrained to pay the sum in subsequent vacancies.
Nature of endorsement
[None].[The petition is answered on the dorse of SC 8/314/E150 in the following manner:They should sue to the Exchequer for these three petitions, and let the rolls and memoranda of the Exchequer be scrutinised for the times of vacancy of the bishopric of the aids that are paid and from which vills and hundreds. And the king should be certified of this in the next parliament at Westminster at Michaelmas.]
Places mentioned
Wisbech, [Cambridgeshire]
Ely diocese.
People mentioned
John de Godeley, keeper of the bishopric of Ely
William de Sutton, keeper of the bishopric of Ely
Richard de Abyndon (Abingdon), keeper of the bishopric of Ely
Robert Herewarde, keeper of the bishopric of Ely.
Note
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.
Related material

For another contemporary petition on the same matter, see SC 8/314/E150

For another petition on the same matter from the other vills that constituted Wisbech Hundred, see SC 8/314/E149

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529200/

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