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Tenants of the vill and borough of Banstead. King. [The petition is missing a portion...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/92/4575

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This record is about the Tenants of the vill and borough of Banstead. King. [The petition is missing a portion... dating from [? 1413-? 1419] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/92/4575
Date
[? 1413-? 1419]
Description
Petitioners
Tenants of the vill and borough of Banstead.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[The petition is missing a portion of its right-hand side]The tenants request that they not be charged contrary to ancient usage and custom, and that they can have letters patent on this.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Banstead, Surrey.
Note
The petition is speculatively dated to 1413-1419 from the denotation on the guard. It is not clear how this dating is arrived at, though it is possible that it stems from the appearance of Arundel in the patent rolls of Henry V's reign between 1413-1418.
Related material

For transcript, see p.18 of PRO 31/7/154

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 568
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149123/

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