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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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Chaplains and Canons of Lichfield Cathedral. King and council. The petitioners ask...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/58/2883
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This record is about the Chaplains and Canons of Lichfield Cathedral. King and council. The petitioners ask... dating from [c. 1327-c. 1340] 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 8/58/2883
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1327-c. 1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Chaplains and Canons of Lichfield Cathedral.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners ask the king to order an end to all the evils that have recently occurred in their church and disturbed their service to God. They show that these disturbances by force and arms caused woundings and deaths and have not been deterred by decisions of Holy Church, or by the law of the land. Recently a man was killed in the entrance to their church. The killer confessed his errors in the same church in view of all the people and was then taken to gaol, and thereafter acquitted by a faulty enquiry.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let them have by writ an order to Henry de Hambury to make an inspection of the record and process.
- Places mentioned
- Lichfield, [Staffordshire].
- People mentioned
- Henry de Hambury.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard, apparently by the floruit of Henry Hambury, but there is no positive dating for this petition.
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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 4866
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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/C9063103/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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