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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Spanby, clerk. de Spanby John King clerk Spanby requests that restitution...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/72/3563
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This record is about the John de Spanby, clerk. de Spanby John King clerk Spanby requests that restitution... dating from [c. 1360] 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 8/72/3563
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1360]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Spanby, clerk.
- Name(s)
- de Spanby, John
- Addressees
- King
- Occupation
- clerk
- Nature of request
- Spanby requests that restitution be made to him of the chapel of Stourbridge, which he has held for 40 years or more by the collation of the bishop of Ely. The chapel has been granted to Grace because of an inquisition procured into the office, which wrongly found that the chapel was founded by the king's progenitors.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let this petition be delivered into Chancery and the office returned, and call the complainant and others who are called for the king, and hear the reasons, and if it is found that the petition contains the truth, let the plaintiff be restored to his possession, and upon this after restitution let him be warned to a certain day to answer to the right of the king.
- Places mentioned
- Steresbrug (Stourbridge), [Cambridgeshire]
- Cambridgeshire.
- People mentioned
- John de Hotham, Bishop of Ely
- William de Otteford, Escheator of Cambridgeshire
- Thomas Grace, clerk.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be dated to c. 1360 as the chapel was granted to Thomas Grace on 3 October 1360 (CPR 1358-61, p.462).
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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 7219
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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 III, vol. XI, 1358-1361, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.462 (grant of the chapel to Grace)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107337/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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