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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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Dean, canons and vicars of the new collegiate church of Our Lady of Leicester. King....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/25/1209
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This record is about the Dean, canons and vicars of the new collegiate church of Our Lady of Leicester. King.... dating from [1426] 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 8/25/1209
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1426]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Dean, canons and vicars of the new collegiate church of Our Lady of Leicester.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that they were founded by the king's progenitors, and that their possessions and rents granted to them are greatly ruined and knocked down from their value at the foundation so that they are unable to sustain the annual charges upon them without the king's aid. They request that the king consider the premises and grant them the advowson of the church of Towyn, and a licence to appropriate it, and they will use the income to endow an annual obit for Henry V, and distribute the residue amongst the dean, canons and vicars in the same manner as the profits from the church of Llanelli are distributed in their aid.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Leicester, [Leicestershire]
- Toweyn (Towyn), [Merionethshire, Wales]
- North Wales
- Wales
- Llanelthy (Llanelli), [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
- South Wales.
- People mentioned
- Henry V, King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by the heading in Rot. Parl. IV, p.309 where it is noted that the petition comes from 4 Hen. VI dating this to 1 Sept. 1425-31 Aug. 1426. As this seems to be a parliamentary petition it must therefore come from the Leicester parliament of February 1426.
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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 5035
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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. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.311a-b (no.4) (full transcription of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061380/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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