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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Dean and chapter of the cathedral church of St Mary of Salisbury, and the vicars...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/72/3551
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This record is about the Dean and chapter of the cathedral church of St Mary of Salisbury, and the vicars... dating from 1421 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 8/72/3551
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1421
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Dean and chapter of the cathedral church of St Mary of Salisbury, and the vicars of the church, and the priests of chantries within the church.
- Addressees
- Commons in parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request that they be able to distrain for their rents and annuities, and for the arrears of the same as they have been withdrawn and not paid because by negligent government their muniments and evidences have been lost and destroyed; and that they might have sufficient warrant to do this if they can prove by a jury that they and their predecessors have been seised of them for sixty years.
- Nature of endorsement
- The response given to this petition, delivered to the parliament held on 1 December in the ninth year of the reign of King Henry, the fifth since the conquest, appears as below:This petition is to be sent to the king's council, and the lords of the same council for the time being are to have power by authority of this parliament to summon before them by such means and process as pleases them all those of whom the petitioners specified in this petition, or each of them, might wish to complain concerning the matters contained in the same petition. And furthermore, considering the perils in which the said supplicants now are in this regard, inasmuch as this church was founded by the king's progenitors, within time of memory limited by statute, it is agreed and assented in this parliament that the said lords, having individually examined the said supplicants concerning the losses of their deeds, muniments, and evidences, of which the said petition makes mention, are to have full power, by the aforesaid authority, to ordain for the said supplicants, and for each of them, such a remedy as will seem to the said lords, on their good advice and discretions, sufficient for the said supplicants to recover the rents and annuities mentioned in the petition, taken from them, for the continuance of the divine works and spiritual charges to be performed in that church because of these rents and annuities, and to the honour and pleasure of God and his most holy mother, patroness of that church. And the power to carry out this ordinance will last until the first parliament after the king's return to England.
- Places mentioned
- Salisbury, [Wiltshire].
- People mentioned
- [John of Lancaster], Duke of Bedford, Keeper of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated in the heading to the response making this a petition presented to the parliament held on the 1 December, 9 Hen. V (1421).
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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 7899
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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/C9107325/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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