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Prior of Longueville Giffard. King. Prior of Longueville Giffard The prior complains...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E151

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Reference
SC 8/315/E151
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Prior of Longueville Giffard.
Addressees
King.
Occupation
Prior of Longueville Giffard
Nature of request
The prior complains that, whereas our the king takes the survey valuation of his goods and lands in England as from other aliens, so that he cannot bring or defend litigation without the aid and support of the king in the kingdom of England, and he is impleaded by Sapience for the advowson of the church of Weston by writ of right, in which the said prior put himself on a wager of law for a default which the Sapience sued against him concerning the church, for which he is adjourned to the quindene of Saint Martin in Winter. He requests that the justices be commanded that a monk, who is the prior's attorney in England, be received to perform the law of which the prior is charged in person so that he may return to his country with less costs and expenses.
Nature of endorsement
If the prior of Longueville is an alien and his house is in the king's hands, he is to go to the exchequer and the treasurer and barons are to inform the justices of this by a writ of the exchequer and the justices are to do what is to be done on this.S [Exchequer].
Places mentioned
Longueville, [Normandy, France]
Weston Longville, [Norfolk].
People mentioned
Roger Sapience.
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.
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, nos.2, 3 (summary of this file) & roll 25, appendix, no.27 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529203/

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