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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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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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This record is about the Free tenants of the vill of Ely and the hundred of Witchford. King and council. The... 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/E150
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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
- 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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another contemporary petition on the same matter answered jointly with this petition, see SC 8/314/E148
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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/C9529202/
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