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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Executors of Hugh de Balsham, late bishop of Ely. King. The executors request that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E247
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This record is about the Executors of Hugh de Balsham, late bishop of Ely. King. The executors request that... 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 8/316/E247
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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
- Executors of Hugh de Balsham, late bishop of Ely.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The executors request that they be discharged of the sum that is currently demanded from them for the escape of one William de Chadesden which is against the liberties of Holy Church, and also of the sum that they were amerced in the king's court for default before the 14th year.
- Nature of endorsement
- To the Exchequer and let justice be done there etc.
- Places mentioned
- Ely, [Cambridgeshire].
- People mentioned
- Hugh de Balsham, late Bishop of Ely
- William de Saham
- William de Chadesden.
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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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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a note of pledges probably formerly attached to this petition, see SC 8/316/E248
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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/C9529299/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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