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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Kyngton, chaplain. Kyngton John King chaplain The petitioner asks the king to...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/55/2735
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This record is about the John Kyngton, chaplain. Kyngton John King chaplain The petitioner asks the king to... dating from 1409 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 8/55/2735
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1409
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Kyngton, chaplain.
- Name(s)
- Kyngton, John
- Addressees
- King
- Occupation
- chaplain
- Nature of request
- The petitioner asks the king to grant him a cask of red wine from Gascony at Christmas next following from the hands of the king's chief butler or his representative in the port of Sandwich and thereafter the same each year for his lifetime. In time to come the petitioner may enter a religious order and is still to have the cask of wine at Christmas for the duration of his natural life, notwithstanding his death in law.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] The king granted this petition at St Albans on 16 December 1409 and it is to be administered through chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- Sandwich, [Kent]
- St Albans, [Hertfordshire]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Firmly dated by the evidence of the endorsement and by the resulting grant in CPR 1408-13, p. 220. The calendar records the date as November, rather than December.
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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 4587
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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, Hen IV, vol. IV, 1408-1413, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.220 (resulting grant)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062953/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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