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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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William Bultell of Waltham. Bultell William Duke of Gloucester and the lords assembled...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/84/4186
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This record is about the William Bultell of Waltham. Bultell William Duke of Gloucester and the lords assembled... dating from [c. 1423] 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 8/84/4186
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1423]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Bultell of Waltham.
- Name(s)
- Bultell, William
- Addressees
- Duke of Gloucester and the lords assembled in parliament.
- Nature of request
- Bultell requests remedy as the men of the abbot came to his house and took livestock from his several pasture for no reasonable cause. He is elderly and his wife continually bedridden and is utterly destroyed by this cruel extortion.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the abbot be charge to answer this petition.
- Places mentioned
- Waltham, [Essex].
- People mentioned
- [Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester
- Abbot of Waltham.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition has been speculatively dated to c. 1423 in accordance with the note on the guard linking this to a rebellion by the abbot's bond tenants at Waltham and elsewhere in 1423 (CPR 1422-9, p.174).
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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 475
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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)
- English
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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/C9148728/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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