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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Richard Corden, Archdeacon of Rochester. Corden Richard Lords spiritual and temporal...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/84/4199
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/84/4199
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1449]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard Corden, Archdeacon of Rochester.
- Name(s)
- Corden, Richard
- Addressees
- Lords spiritual and temporal of the council of the king.
- Occupation
- Archdeacon of Rochester
- Nature of request
- Corden requests remedy and that Lambe and the other evil doers be examined for the offences they have done against his official and that what right and good conscience requires be done to them. Herford, his official, summoned Lambe for withdrawing the light of Our Lady in the church of Westerham, and because he would not appear he suspended and denounced Lambe who thereafter came with force and arms and beat the petitioner's summoner and subsequently forced Herford to absolve him of the denouncement.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Rochester, Kent
- Westerham, [Kent]
- Ash, [Kent].
- People mentioned
- Robert Herford, official of the petitioner
- John Lambe
- Thomas Faukner, summoner of the petitioner
- Richard Yong, Bailiff of Westram
- Richard Smyth (Smith), constable of Westram
- Richard Stydolf, mason
- William Chawelon
- Thomas Gelot
- John Fynche (Finch)
- John Doberham
- Nicholas Deken
- Richard Toller
- Thomas Stacey
- William Chawry
- John Betysham
- Bishop of Rochester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1449, the petition referring to events in May and July 1449.
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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 2409
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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/C9148741/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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