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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named Draft letters patent of Henry VI granting a licence for Coventre,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1291
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Draft letters patent of Henry VI granting a licence for Coventre,... dating from [1433] 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 8/26/1291
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1433]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Draft letters patent of Henry VI granting a licence for Coventre, Denton, Cheyne, Chaldewell and Forster to grant in mortmain to the prioress and nuns of Littlemore 60s. of annual rent issuing from six messuages and 5 acres of meadow with appurtenance in Oxford in exchange for all the lands, tenements and fisheries with all rights, franchises, liberties and appurtenances of the prioress and nuns in Barway, Ely and Little Thetford.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Littlemore, Oxfordshire
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
- Berewey (Barway), Cambridgeshire
- Ely, Cambridgeshire
- Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire
- People mentioned
- Henry VI, King of England
- Thomas Coventre (Coventry)
- Thomas Denton
- Laurence Cheyne
- John Chaldewell, clerk
- Richard Forster
- Prioress and nuns of the church of St Nicholas of Littlemore.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition and attached draft are dated by the title in Rot. Parl. IV, p.458 to 11 Henry VI, making this 1432-3. This draft and the petition can be more closely dated by the letters patent issued in response to the petition, and in accordance with the draft on 8 July 1433 (CPR 1429-36, p.287).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the petition to which this draft was attached see SC 8/26/1292
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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 1942
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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)
- Latin
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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)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. II, 1429-1436, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.287 (letters patent licensing the exchange)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.467b (no.10) (edition of original draft letters patent)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061467/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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