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Convent of Bury St Edmunds. [King]. The convent request that they send by a sergeant...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/94/4665

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Reference
SC 8/94/4665
Date
[? 1382-? 1396]
Description
Petitioners
Convent of Bury St Edmunds.
Addressees
[King].
Nature of request
The convent request that they send by a sergeant at arms form Baketon . . . in the court of Rome to inform the king and the other lords of all the full truth in the matter of the quarrel of the king concerning the papal provision to the abbey.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk]
Rome, [Italy]
London.
People mentioned
Thomas Baketon, doctor of law, Archdeacon of London.
Note
The petition is dated to? 1382-? 1396 in accordance with the dating on the guard. However the explanation on the guard is badly faded, though it may be that it refers to Baketon's term as archdeacon of London.
Related material

For transcript, see no.26 of PRO 31/7/108

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 792
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149216/

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