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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Agatha de la Poynte, Prioress of Lyminster. Poynte Agatha [None specified]. Prioress...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E193
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This record is about the Agatha de la Poynte, Prioress of Lyminster. Poynte Agatha [None specified]. Prioress... 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 8/315/E193
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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
- Agatha de la Poynte, Prioress of Lyminster.
- Name(s)
- Poynte, Agatha
- Addressees
- [None specified].
- Occupation
- Prioress of Lyminster
- Nature of request
- The prioress requests grace as she is in arrears of the tax levied on her house because of the Gascon war and is unable to pay and there is nothing to sustain them and the sheriff of Sussex distrains them from day to day.
- Nature of endorsement
- To the Exchequer, and they should have mitigation if it is considered that it ought to be done by the discretion of the treasurer and barons.
- Places mentioned
- Lyminster, [Sussex]
- Arundel, [Sussex].
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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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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/C9529245/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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