Series
Duchy of Lancaster: Court Rolls
Catalogue reference: DL 30
Date: c1272-1954
Court rolls of manors, hundreds and other local jurisdictions, and related manorial documents such as estreats, copies of court rolls, and a few...
Item
Prior and convent of Prittlewell. King. The prior and convent request that the demand...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E155
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/315/E155
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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 Prittlewell.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The prior and convent request that the demand for £100 be released as there are 18 monks in the house, as the previous prior made a fine in that sum by distress to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer for one year to the use of the king, and this has been fully paid. The house is only assessed at £130 and the treasurer and barons through the sheriff and bailiffs demand the same sum from year to year to their great ruin.
- Nature of endorsement
- They should go to the Exchequer and account for the manors of Eastwood and Rayleigh and then show the state of their house, and the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer should do according to what by their discretion ought to be done.S [Exchequer].
- Places mentioned
- Prittlewell, [Essex]
- Eastwood, [Essex]
- Rayleigh, [Essex].
- People mentioned
- Henry de Essex.
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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.
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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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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Manors
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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/C9529207/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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