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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Flour, chaplain and chantry priest at the altar of St Laurence in the parish...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/111/5506
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This record is about the John Flour, chaplain and chantry priest at the altar of St Laurence in the parish... dating from [c. 1425-c. 1450] 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 8/111/5506
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1425-c. 1450]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Flour, chaplain and chantry priest at the altar of St Laurence in the parish church of Newark.
- Name(s)
- Flour, John
- Addressees
- Commons.
- Occupation
- chaplain and chantry priest at the altar of St Laurence in the parish church of Newark
- Nature of request
- Flour requests that the commons request the king and lords will ordain that the chantry of Maud Saucemer be perpetual, and that the chaplains have the capacity to buy and receive lands, tenements and rents, and be able to plead. He further requests the confirmation of a procedure for the selection of his successors and that they can have the rent of 6½ marks of rent from the abbot of Wellow and distrain for the same should it be in arrears with access to the appropriate writ for the recovery of the same. Maud Saucemer established the chantry, the rent being paid by the abbot, but it is withheld by the current abbot.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face].Let this bill be sent to the lords.[On dorse, none].
- Places mentioned
- Newark, Nottinghamshire
- Wellow, [Lincolnshire]
- Grimsby, [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- Thomas, late Abbot of the minster of St Augustine, Wellow
- Matilda Saucemer of Newark, widow of William Saucemer
- William Saucemer, late husband of the petitioner
- William, late Archbishop of York.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated impressionistically, on the basis of the form and the hand, to the second quarter of the fifteenth century.
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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 3423
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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/C9150171/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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