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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Nicholas English, Prior of Blyth. English, Nicholas King and prelates and lords in...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1019
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This record is about the Nicholas English, Prior of Blyth. English, Nicholas King and prelates and lords in... dating from [1385] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/21/1019
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1385]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Nicholas English, Prior of Blyth.
- Name(s)
- English,, Nicholas
- Addressees
- King and prelates and lords in parliament.
- Occupation
- Prior of Blyth
- Nature of request
- The Prior of Blyth states that although it was ordained that no perpetual prior like himself should be removed, a secular parson called master John de Midelton, by colour of a letter patent recently purchased from the king, has expelled him from the priory, sold its corn and wasted and given away its goods and chattels, both spiritual and temporal, so that the prior has nothing to live off, and the alms, divine services, and other charges on the priory have ceased. He requests that this letter patent might be revoked, and that he might be restored.
- Nature of endorsement
- [No endorsement] Letter from Pope Lucius, forbidding anyone, on pain of excommunication, to expel the prior from his monastery, or to remove anything belonging to the monastery.
- Places mentioned
- Blyth, [Nottinghamshire].
- People mentioned
- Master John de Midelton (Middleton), secular parson.
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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 947
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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 and Latin
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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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- Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. X, Ric II, 1383-1391, (Public Record Office, 1929), p.126 (grant to the prior of possession of the priory and revocation of the letters patent granted to Midelton)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.256b (no. 18) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061179/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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