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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot and convent of St Mary's, York. King and council. [This petition is badly damaged...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/295/14722
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This record is about the Abbot and convent of St Mary's, York. King and council. [This petition is badly damaged... dating from [? c. 1320-? c. 1340] 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 8/295/14722
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1320-? c. 1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot and convent of St Mary's, York.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly damaged and faded] [To our] Lord the king and his council, his chaplains, the Abbot and convent of St Mary's, York, pray that whereas all their temporalities together . . . the manor of Whitgift and the moor of Inclesmoor, with their appurtenances, in the county of York, at £600 in great . . . and although the aforesaid Abbot and convent, or their predecessors, in the said manor and moor with their appurtenances, from time . . . Lascy, formerly Earl of Lincoln, after that assessment was made . . . came, they never had anything, nevertheless the said Abbot and [convent] . . . pounds, according to the said assessment of £600, for every tenth and other tax granted to our said lord the king . . . by the clergy of his realm and imposed on the same clergy, have been charged. May it please our said lord the king . . . the aforesaid Abbot and convent and their successors of such tenths and taxes touching the said manor and moor . . . together with any sums of money which are demanded [from them] by summons of the Exchequer for the arrears of such . . . reason of the said manor and moor as is said above.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king and council, having had deliberation, considering that it is not reasonable that the said Abbot and convent should be charged with such tenths and taxes touching the said manor and moor if they are not in their hands (?) . . . value of the said . . . assessed at . . . that of the arrears . . . tenths and taxes from times past . . . for each tenth . . . the time that the said . . .
- Places mentioned
- York
- Whitgift, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Inclesmoor, [West Riding of] Yorkshire.
- People mentioned
- [Henry] de Lascy (Lacey), Earl of Lincoln.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Tentatively dated on the guard to c. 1327, with reference to CCR 1327-30 p.54 (dated 5 March 1327), an order to allow the Abbot of St Mary's to pay £600 in instalments of £100 annually: but this is the remainder of his account for the time when he and his predecessors were collectors of the tenths of the clergy, and in consideration of damage to his abbey by the Scots, none of which seems relevant to this petition. Tentatively dated on the basis of the hand and the language.
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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/C9735887/
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