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Abbess and convent of Shaftesbury; Robert Longe Longe Robert Commons in parliament...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1290A

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This record is about the Abbess and convent of Shaftesbury; Robert Longe Longe Robert Commons in parliament... dating from [1432-1433] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/26/1290A
Date
[1432-1433]
Description
Petitioners
Abbess and convent of Shaftesbury; Robert Longe
Name(s)
Longe, Robert
Addressees
Commons in parliament
Nature of request
The petitioners request that the commons request from the king to grant to them licence of exchange under the great seal certain lands and tenements following the form and effect of a schedule attached to the petition without paying a fine or fee as the exchange is made only for the convenience of the petitioners and not for profit.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be just as it is petitioned for a reasonable fine and customary fee.
Places mentioned
Shaftesbury, [Dorset]
Note
The petition is dated by the title in Rot. Parl. IV, p.458 to 11 Henry VI, making this 1432-3.
Related material

For the schedule formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/26/1290B

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7444
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
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), p.467a-b (no.9) (edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061465/

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