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? No Petitioner named Letters patent of Henry VI to the abbess and convent granting...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1258

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letters patent of Henry VI to the abbess and convent granting... dating from [1431] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/26/1258
Date
[1431]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letters patent of Henry VI to the abbess and convent granting them a licence to move the site of their house from its current restricted location where there are 60 nuns living with 25 religious men who administer to them.
Nature of endorsement
[No endorsement of process]
Places mentioned
Isleworth, (Middlesex)
Twickenham, (Middlesex)
Westminster.
People mentioned
Henry VI, King of England
Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester, Protector of England
Abbess and convent of Syon
Note
The letters patent are dated to 19 October 1431.
Related material

For the petition formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/26/1257A

For a transcription see no. 19C in PRO 31/7/118

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7645
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
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.39ba-396b (transcription of letters patent on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061433/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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