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Free tenants of the vill of Ely and the hundred of Witchford. King and council. The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/314/E150

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SC 8/314/E150
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Free tenants of the vill of Ely and the hundred of Witchford.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The free tenants request that a remedy is ordained as they hold freely without tallage but in the vacancy following the death of Bishop Kilkenny the keeper, Master John Walrain, demanded a tallage from them and the people of the hundred and the vill gave 100s. each to his own use so that they were able to reside in their ancient estate, but he entered the sums on his account and they have been grievously distrained every since for the sums in times of vacancy as if they were villeins.
Nature of endorsement
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
Ely, [Cambridgeshire]
Witchford hundred, [Cambridgeshire].
People mentioned
William de Kilkenny, Bishop of Ely
John Walrain, keeper of the diocese 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 answered jointly with this petition, see SC 8/314/E148

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)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529202/

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