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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln. Burghersh Henry King and council. Bishop of Lincoln...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/18/877
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/18/877
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln.
- Name(s)
- Burghersh, Henry
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Bishop of Lincoln
- Nature of request
- Henry, Bishop of Lincoln, requests that the time limited by right for the holding of his fairs of Banbury and Newark might be increased, and that he might have permission for each of them to last longer than was previously the custom.
- Nature of endorsement
- Of the king's grace, each fair may be allowed to last eight days longer than the time previously allowed provided that this does not harm other fairs. But he is first to show in Chancery how and for how long he has held, and should hold, his said fairs.
- Places mentioned
- Banbury, [Oxfordshire]
- Newark, [Nottinghamshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated from Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined. p.174, which places the summary among those from 1327.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 4844
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.174 (full edition of original petition and of later English summary)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.439a, no. 78 (later English summary of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061030/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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