Catalogue description Petitioners: Anian Sais, Bishop of Bangor Name(s): Sais, Anian Addressees: ...

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Details of SC 8/31/1537
Reference: SC 8/31/1537
Description:
Petitioners: Anian Sais, Bishop of Bangor
Name(s): Sais, Anian
Addressees: King.
Places mentioned: Bangor, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]; Wales.; Clipstone, [Nottinghamshire]
Nature of request: The Bishop of Bangor requests that he might be pardoned the tenth currently demanded from the clergy of his diocese, as he has been greatly impoverished by bad harvests, disease among his animals, by his continual stay at Bangor to provide aid and counsel to maintain the peace in those parts, as the king commanded him at Clipstone (and as he has done, and asks that it might be inquired into by all the English in those parts if it is not so), and his church at Bangor is greatly dilapidated, and its bell-tower burnt down.
Nature of endorsement: Advice is to be taken on some other solution, as the council is advised that this is not to be done.
Note: A note on the guard dates this petition to '? c. 1307, prob. temp. Ed. II' with reference to the words 'vostre mere': a figurative description by the bishop of the king's 'mother church' of Bangor (presumably because Edward II was born at Caernarfon, in Bangor diocese). The reign of Edward II seems likely from this, the hand and the French second endorsement, but it must be from later in the reign: the bishop claims to have remained in Bangor for some time at the king's command. The second date suggested of 'Poss. after 1320' with reference to Rot. Parl. vol. I p.379 seems much more likely, and indeed Petitions Relating to Wales, p.41 dates it as? 1320. Indeed, it is possible that the petition might be slightly earlier than the petition edited in Rot. Parl. vol. I p.379 (SC 8/331/15659), which would then be an alternative suggestion for the funding of repairs made as a result of the endorsement to this petition.As SC 8/326/E769 shows, the burning-down of the bell-tower took place some little time previously.
Date: [c. 1320]
Related material:

For a related petition from the same bishop is SC 8/331/15659

For an earlier petition, referring to the burning of the bell-tower, see SC 8/326/E769

Another petition concerning this tenth is SC 8/91/4540
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 1106
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.41 (calendar of petition)

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