Catalogue description AP Alien priors. King and council in parliament. The alien priors state that, when their...

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Details of SC 8/21/1036
Reference: SC 8/21/1036
Description: APAlien priors.King and council in parliament.The alien priors state that, when their possessions were seized because of the war, although it was ordained that they should keep them for a sum of money to be paid to the king, they have often been expelled from their farms at the suit of seculars, and are ruined by secular occupation. They request that they might be treated in a way that is to the honour of God, and of the estate of the king and other lords whose ancestors were their founders, and will maintain their houses, and the alms and divine services they provide; and especially that those priors who have patents and have been expelled from their priories might be restored in the present parliament.The king wills that the ordinance made concerning alien priories in the first year of his reign be kept and observed; adding to this that those priors who were instituted by the bishop of the place, or exempt through their abbeys, before the Schism, or who are conventual or collegiate, or who have a title for term of life, should have and enjoy their priories at a reasonable farm, without being expelled, even if others wish to pay more for them. And that those priors who have a patent from the king and have been expelled should be re-instated by award of this parliament; notwithstanding any patent that has been made to others concerning the priories. And no alien priory, office or bailiwick which has any church or spirituality attached to it should be in the hands of a lay person, or of a clerk or religious to the use of lay people, but in the hands of honest persons of Holy Church religious or secular, for a reasonable farm, to find divine service and perform other reasonable charges in accordance with its foundation. not very secure. A note on the dorse (which is however not contemporary) reads '13 Ric 2' - 1389-90. As this petition was presented in parliament, if it belongs to this year, it would have to be from January 1390.
Note: Rot. Parl. vol. III p.276b (no. 12) dates this petition to the parliament of January 1390 (1389, as they are using the old calendar), but the dating of many of the petitions ascribed by them to particular years of Richard II is not very secure. A note on the dorse (which is however not contemporary) reads '13 Ric 2' - 1389-90. As this petition was presented in parliament, if it belongs to this year, it would have to be from January 1390.
Date: [? 1390]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 6577
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.276b (no. 12) (full edition of original petition)

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