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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 royal letters on behalf of the bishops of St David's...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/27/1314
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Draft royal letters on behalf of the bishops of St David's... dating from [1439] 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 8/27/1314
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1439]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Draft royal letters on behalf of the bishops of St David's and Norwich and the prior of St John of Jerusalem, who were owed 700 marks, 950 marks and 1760 marks respectively by Ferentinis, merchant of Florence lately dwelling in London, which they could not recover from him during his lifetime, and Ferentinis has lately died intestate. The archbishop of Canterbury, or the custodian of the see if it should be vacant, is to commit the administrators of the goods of Ferentinis to make levy from his possessions within England to the value of the said sums and render account to the archbishop or custodian of the see.
- Nature of endorsement
- No endorsement.
- Places mentioned
- Meneven' (St David's), [Wales]
- Norwich, [Norfolk]
- Florence, [Italy]
- London
- People mentioned
- Thomas [Rodburn], bishop of St David's
- Thomas [Brown], bishop of Norwich
- Robert, prior of St John of Jerusalem in England
- Alexander de Ferentinis of Florence, merchant
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in Rot. Parl. V, p.3 to the parliament which met on 12 November 1439.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/27/1313
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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 7686
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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 Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.37 (brief calendar)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.13a-b (no.26) (transcription on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061492/
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