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? No Petitioner named Draft of letters patent of Henry VI granting to the bishop...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/25/1229

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Draft of letters patent of Henry VI granting to the bishop... dating from [1427] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/25/1229
Date
[1427]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Draft of letters patent of Henry VI granting to the bishop licence to use the churches of All Saints, St Mildred and St Michael at the north gate of Oxford to establish a college of a warden and seven scholars in the university of Oxford to be called the college of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Oxford, [Oxfordshire].
People mentioned
Henry VI, King of England
Richard [Fleming], Bishop of Lincoln
Lincoln College, Oxford.
Note
The draft dates to mid to late 1427 with SC 8/25/1229, the petition with which it was enclosed, the letters patent were issued on 13 October in that year (CPR 1422-9, p.455).
Related material

For the petition to which this schedule was originally attached see SC 8/25/1228

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5018
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429 , (Public Record Office, 1901), p.455 (licence for the bishop to found the college)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061402/

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