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Details of SC 8/244/12168
Reference: SC 8/244/12168
Description:
Petitioners: Prior of St Catherine outside Lincoln.
Addressees: King.
Occupation: Prior of St Catherine outside Lincoln
Nature of request: The prior requests that it be ordained that the suit brought against him by Nesfield cease and that the annuity demanded from the priory not be paid. Nesfield is demanding an annuity allegedly granted to the hospital in the time of King John which has not been paid, the prior's predecessor alleging that the writing granting it was a forgery, but the keepers of the hospital continue to demand it and the arrears.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned: John de Nessefeld (Nesfield), keeper of the hospital of the Holy Innocents; William de Sherebourne (Shireburn), prior of St Catherine's; William de Clyf, keeper of the hospital of the Holy Innocents.
Note: The petition dates to 1348 as the privy seal warrant with which it was formerly enclosed dates to 23 May 1348 [22 Edw. III] (C 81/331/19532). The petitioner was discharged of the charge on 24 July 1348 (CPR 1348-50, p.130).
Date: [1348]
Related material:

For the privy seal warrant with which this petition was probably formerly enclosed, see no. 19532 in C 81/331
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1348-1350, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.130 (discharge of the prior and convent of the charge)

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