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Thomas Coventre (Coventry); Thomas Denton; Laurence Cheyne (Cheney); John Chaldewell...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1292

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This record is about the Thomas Coventre (Coventry); Thomas Denton; Laurence Cheyne (Cheney); John Chaldewell... dating from [1433] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/26/1292
Date
[1433]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Coventre (Coventry); Thomas Denton; Laurence Cheyne (Cheney); John Chaldewell (Caldwell), clerk; Richard Foster (Forster); Prioress and nuns of the church of St Nicholas of Littlemore.
Name(s)
Coventre (Coventry); Denton; Cheyne (Cheney); Chaldewell (Caldwell); Foster (Forster), Thomas; Thomas; Laurence; John; Richard
Addressees
Commons in parliament.
Places mentioned
Littlemore, Oxfordshire
Oxford, [Oxfordshire].
Berewey (Barway), Cambridgeshire
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire.
Nature of request
The petitioners request that the commons request from the king to grant to them a licence for Coventre, Denton, Cheyne, Chaldewell and Forster to grant 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 Berewey, Ely and Little Thetford.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be just as it is petitioned without fine being taken, for God because they are poor.
Note
The petition and attached draft are dated by the title in Rot. Parl. IV, p.458 to 11 Henry VI, making this 1432-3. 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).
Related material

For the schedule formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/26/1291

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1941
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • 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 petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061468/

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