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Priors of the order of Cluny residing in England. King and council. The priors request...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E220

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Reference
SC 8/316/E220
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Priors of the order of Cluny residing in England.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The priors request grace and remedy in such manner that their houses are not destroyed as they paid before these hours to the king and in tenths so much that they don't have enough to live on nor to sustain their houses during the war.
Nature of endorsement
They should go to the treasurer because the king has said to him his will on this.
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)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.469 (later protection to the monastery of Cluny and the priories of the same)
  • 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)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529272/

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