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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior of Lewes. King and council. Prior of Lewes [Petition in two parts:]1) The prior...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/323/E568
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This record is about the Prior of Lewes. King and council. Prior of Lewes [Petition in two parts:]1) The prior... dating from [1290-1293] 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 8/323/E568
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1290-1293]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior of Lewes.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prior of Lewes
- Nature of request
- [Petition in two parts:]1) The prior requests that the king maintain the estate of the Church as he holds nothing in Leicestershire of lay fee, but of the church so that neither he or his tenants are geldable nor subject to other demands, however, the sheriff has levied 100s. from the tenants of the prior against the estate of his church to the great damage of the prior.2) The prior requests remedy as he was impleaded by Enoroys of a debt before the justice of the Bench and the sheriff of Leicester has made false returns of the names of pledges of the tenants of the fee of Holy Church and afterwards mainprised them though the prior holds nothing of lay fee and amerced the prior, and made other false returns so that he and his tenants are much aggrieved.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Lewes, [Sussex]
- Leicestershire.
- People mentioned
- Steven Rabaz, sheriff of Leicestershire
- John de Enoroys.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1290-1293 as the petition complains of Steven Rabaz whilst he was still sheriff and he served in that office between February 1290 and June 1293 (List of Sheriffs, p.144).
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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/C9529620/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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