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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Brothers and sisters of the hospital of St Nicholas outside Carlisle. King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/322/E517
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This record is about the Brothers and sisters of the hospital of St Nicholas outside Carlisle. King and council.... dating from [1296-1297] 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 8/322/E517
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1296-1297]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Brothers and sisters of the hospital of St Nicholas outside Carlisle.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The brothers and sisters request remedy and that it be commanded that the bishop of Carlisle have the keeping of their house as his predecessors did and as was attested by their burnt charter. The bishop was always their protector, but now Cressingham has seized the hospital into the king's hand by quo warranto, because their charters of witness were burnt in the great fire of Carlisle since when they have had no sustenance because their rents, houses, livelihood are ruined through want of protection.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.The king does not have the council to restore that which was recovered in the eyre of the justices.
- Places mentioned
- Carlisle, [Cumberland].
- People mentioned
- Æthelwulf, Bishop of Carlisle
- Henry II, King of England
- Hugh de Cressingham.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated by Fraser to 1296-1297, though the exact basis of the dating is unclear (Northern Petitions, pp.110-1 (no.76)). The guard notes refer to the great fire of Carlisle in 1292 and suggest that the petition was presented before the death of Hugh de Cressingham in 1297.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition on the same matter, see SC 8/319/E372
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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)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.110-11 (no.76) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529569/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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