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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury; William Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester;...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/100/4986
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This record is about the Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury; William Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester;... dating from [c. 1400] 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 8/100/4986
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1400]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury; William Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester; Thomas Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel.
- Name(s)
- Arundel; Wykeham; Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, Thomas; William; Thomas
- Addressees
- The King.
- Occupation
- Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of Winchester
- Nature of request
- The petitioners seek cancellation and annulment of letters patent from Richard II granting Bermondsey Abbey the hundreds of Brixton and Walton. They state that they have various franchises in their manors, lands, tenements and fees in the said hundreds in Surrey, which were granted to the Prior of Bermondsey in 1396-7, with return of writs etc., to the great prejudice of the petitioners' liberties and to the great harm of all the commons of Sussex and Surrey, contrary to the order of the realm.
- Nature of endorsement
- By the advice and assent of all the lords spiritual and temporal the king [is] to repeal the letters patent made to Bermondsey Abbey. Moreover, from the aforesaid advice and assent the king wishes that the statutes made in this case be set, held, and kept.
- Places mentioned
- Brixton hundred, [Surrey]
- Wallington hundred, [Surrey]
- Bermondsey Abbey, [Surrey]
- Sussex
- Surrey.
- People mentioned
- Richard II, King of England.
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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 1807
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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)
- French
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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/C9149553/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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