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? No Petitioner named A copy of three charters made to the nuns of Clerkenwell by...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/98/4860

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SC 8/98/4860
Date
[1337]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
A copy of three charters made to the nuns of Clerkenwell by Henry II (the first is actually of Stephen, but copied under the name of Henry).
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege et magno consilio.
Places mentioned
Clerkenwell, [Middlesex]
London
Westminster
Woodstock, [Oxfordshire].
People mentioned
Henry [II], King of England
the nuns of Clerkenwell
Richard [de Belmeis II], Bishop of London
Jordan [Fitz Brientius], son of Ralph Fitz Brientius
Ralph Fitz Brientius
William [d'Aubigny], Earl of Chichester (Arundel)
R[Richard of Ilchester], Bishop of Winchester
G[Geoffrey Ridel], Bishop of Ely
B[Bartholomew], Bishop of Exeter
A[Augustinus Ua Selbaig], Bishop of Waterford
Humphrey de Bohun, Constable of England
Robert Marmion
Geoffrey [sic], Archbishop of Canterbury
Richard, Archbishop of Poitou
Richard de Hastings.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioners, see SC 8/157/7837

For the petition to which this document was attached, see SC 8/98/4859

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1480
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. IV, 1-14 Edw III, 1327-1341, (Public Record Office, 1912), pp.397-8 (inspeximus and confirmation of charters of the nuns of Clerkenwell)
  • Historical Notes on the Use of the Great Seal of England, Sir Henry C. Maxwell-Lyte, (, 1926), no.202 (edition of first charter)
  • The Acta of Henry II, N. Vincent, no.634 (edition of second charter) & no. 629 (edition of third charter)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149427/

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