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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury. Courtenay William King and lords in...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1027
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This record is about the William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury. Courtenay William King and lords in... dating from [c. 1390] 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 8/21/1027
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1390]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Name(s)
- Courtenay, William
- Addressees
- King and lords in parliament.
- Occupation
- Archbishop of Canterbury
- Nature of request
- William, Archbishop of Canterbury, requests the right to present to benefices in the diocese of St Asaph, as his predecessors have done since before the forfeiture of the last Prince of Wales, as the king has recently made several presentations during a vacancy.
- Nature of endorsement
- This petition is to be sent before the king's great council, and there, when both the king's counsel and the party's have been heard, justice is to be done. And furthermore the king wishes of his especial grace that, although the Archbishop might receive a parson to a benefice of the patronage of the bishop St Asaph during a vacancy, at the king's presentation, this is not to be prejudicial to the Archbishop in future.
- Places mentioned
- Seint Assa (St Asaph) diocese, [Wales].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition must date from immediately after the vacancy in St Asaph's that occurred between the death of Lawrence Child in December 1389 and the consecration of Alexander Bache in May 1390.
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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 2082
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.274b-275a (no. 4) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061188/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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