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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
Item
John de Cape, Bailiff of Bordeaux, clerk and proctor de Cape John King and council...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/38/1853
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/38/1853
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Cape, Bailiff of Bordeaux, clerk and proctor
- Name(s)
- de Cape, John
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- Bailiff of Bordeaux; clerk and proctor
- Nature of request
- Cape states that he has been in the king's service for a long time in France and he has received no pay or consideration, and his houses have been burnt, and his goods carried away in each of the king's wars. He requests the king's letters to the pope to grant him by his special grace the first available canonry with a prebend in the church of St Andrew of Bordeaux.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be done.
- Places mentioned
- Burdewes (Bordeaux), [Guyenne, France]
- France
- People mentioned
- Pope
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- There is no internal evidence to date this petition. However, the reference to war in France (Saint-Sardos?) and the early fourteenth century hand suggest that it could date to the mid-1320s.
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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 1548
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062056/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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