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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Executors of Master Alan de Freston, Archdeacon of Norfolk. King and treasurer and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/320/E442
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This record is about the Executors of Master Alan de Freston, Archdeacon of Norfolk. King and treasurer and... dating from [1301] 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 8/320/E442
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1301]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Executors of Master Alan de Freston, Archdeacon of Norfolk.
- Addressees
- King and treasurer and barons of the Exchequer.
- Nature of request
- The executors request that the debt owed by Sutton be assigned to them in compensation of the sum owed to Freston by the king expended to the profit and defence of his realm, this being in accordance with what the king ordained and commanded at his parliament of Lincoln.
- Nature of endorsement
- By virtue of the answer made by the king and council in parliament at Lincoln in the morrow of Hilary in the 29th year to the petition of the abbess and convent of Canonsleigh, with regard both to the money of the abbess and convent and to the money of all others present and absent in the parliament, taken to the use of the king by scrutiny made in the 22nd year of the king, which petition is delivered to the Exchequer to be executed according to the response to the same, because Master Alan was not bound to the king in debt, nor held farms or rents of the king in the Exchequer on the day of his death, the treasurer and barons at the said request of the executors and with the assent of William de Sutton, present in the court, have assigned £757 2s. from the debts which Sutton owes the king at the Exchequer to the executors to be received from Sutton in compensation for the £757 2s. contained in the petition, as is contained among the memoranda for Easter term in the 29th year.
- Places mentioned
- Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]
- Canonsleigh, [Devon].
- People mentioned
- Alan de Freston, Archdeacon of Norfolk
- W[William de March], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Treasurer
- William de Sutton, late sheriff
- Abbess and convent of Canonsleigh.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1301 as it is clear that it closely dates to the parliament held at Lincoln in Hilary 1301.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529494/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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