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

Catalogue reference: SC 8/25/1231

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

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Reference
SC 8/25/1231
Date
[? 1427]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Draft of letters patent of Henry VI granting a licence to the abbot and convent to be able to assign a messuage and rent in the town of Boston together with the advowson of the church of the town to the bishop of Lincoln, with a licence for the bishop to be able to receive the same. In addition a licence is granted for the bishop to erect a collegiate church from the church of the town consisting of a dean, a precentor and a number of prebendary canons, and that the abbot be one of the prebendary canons and the precentor. Licence is also granted to grant messuages and rent to the college.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
York
Villa de Sancto Botho (Boston), Linconshire.
People mentioned
Henry VI, King of England
Abbot and convent of Blessed Mary, York
Richard [Fleming], Bishop of Lincoln.
Note
The draft is difficult to date as no enrolled copy seems to survive of it. The guard dates it to c.1427 on the basis that the petition is almost identical to another dated petition of the same bishop but concerning a completely separate grant (SC 8/25/1228 and 29). This seems a reasonable supposition, though the petitions and schedules are not in the same hand, so seem not to have been drawn up together.
Related material

For the petition to which this schedule was originally attached see SC 8/25/1231

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5016
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.363b-364a (no.2) (full transcription of original draft of letters patent)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061404/

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