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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Nuns of Cheshunt King and council 1) The nuns state that they have lost their muniments...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/38/1886
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This record is about the Nuns of Cheshunt King and council 1) The nuns state that they have lost their muniments... dating from [? 1315] 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 8/38/1886
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1315]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Nuns of Cheshunt
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- 1) The nuns state that they have lost their muniments with their house in a fire. They request that the king renew the charters and muniments according to the enrolled copies that can be found in the rolls of Chancery.2) The nuns further request that because of their impoverishment that the king grant to them that they be able to appropriate lands and rents from gifts up to a certain sum notwithstanding the statute of mortmain.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- For the first petition let the rolls in Chancery and if they should find charters and muniments in the rolls in the form due.2) For the second petition nothing at present.
- Places mentioned
- Cesthonte (Cheshunt), Hertfordshire
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition probably dates to 1315 when an exemplification was issued on the petition of the prioress, Alice de Sumery. However the patent roll reference then goes on to grant land previously granted by Henry III from estates confiscated from the canons of Cathale of which the petition does not make mention. It is therefore possible that the petition is not the same as the one that prompted the patent roll entry (CPR 1313-17, p.292).
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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 1408
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.292 (Exemplification of charters and grant of lands formerly of the canons of Cathale)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062089/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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