Petition from the collectors of the tenth in the diocese of London
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The collectors of the tenth granted by the clergy at the Northampton parliament in the diocese of London, that is, in the archdeaconries of Essex, Middlesex, Colchester and London, state that they have collected part of the first payment and part of the second, but that because of the recent uprising, many people in the diocese who are in arrears with their payment, have refused to pay the remainder, and many have fled, and many have died, and although the collectors have sued against them by ecclesiastical censure to the point of excommunication, and they are still excommunicated, they do not dare to sue by writ of significavit or otherwise, on pain of death. They ask that they may be able to account only for what they have received, and that they might be discharged of the rest.
