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'The first humble beginnings of an agitation': The 1866 mass women’s suffrage petition
This petition marked an unprecedented moment in British history: 1,500 women directly demanding the vote.
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Chancery: Various Counterwrits
Catalogue reference: C 261
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C 261
This series contains the relatively few surviving counterwrits to documents issued out of Chancery.They have been divided into those for the election of coroners and verderers, requests to religious houses for corrodies, injunctions, and a...
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- C 261
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chancery: Various Counterwrits
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1272-c1625
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the relatively few surviving counterwrits to documents issued out of Chancery.
They have been divided into those for the election of coroners and verderers, requests to religious houses for corrodies, injunctions, and a collection of miscellanea.
Most of these records were formerly included in C 202
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and Latin
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- 12 file(s)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3793/
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