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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Master Robert Burton, clerk Burton Robert King Burton who was lately sent on behalf...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/26/1298
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This record is about the Master Robert Burton, clerk Burton Robert King Burton who was lately sent on behalf... 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 8/26/1298
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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
- Master Robert Burton, clerk
- Name(s)
- Burton, Robert
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- Burton who was lately sent on behalf of the English clergy to the council general at Basle requests letters under the privy seal to the chancellor according to the annexed copy.Item: grant of letters of protection to Burton, and to Slater and Beaumaris his servants from 18 November for a year.
- Nature of endorsement
- It was agreed by the advice of the parliament held at Westminster on 8 July 1433 that the petition be endorsed in the following form: Let it be just as it is petitioned. Let it be also similar protections for the prior of Norwich and Master Thomas Brouns at the council of Basle if they wish to have letters of protection of this kind.
- Places mentioned
- Basle, [Switzerland]
- People mentioned
- Thomas Sclatter (Slater), servant of Robert Burton
- John Beaumarys (Beaumaris), servant of Robert Burton
- Prior of Norwich
- Master Thomas [Brouns]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by the endorsement to 12 July 1433.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the draft letters to the chancellor formerly appended to this petition see SC 8/26/1299
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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 951
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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)
- French
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.472b (no.18) (edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061474/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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