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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot of Fountains. King and the lords spiritual and temporal of the present parliament....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/111/5525
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This record is about the Abbot of Fountains. King and the lords spiritual and temporal of the present parliament.... dating from [? 1427] 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 8/111/5525
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1427]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of Fountains.
- Addressees
- King and the lords spiritual and temporal of the present parliament.
- Occupation
- Abbot of Fountains
- Nature of request
- The abbot requests a writ to the sheriff of Yorkshire to make a proclamation in Yorkshire and Lancashire that Tunstall and Worseley be before the council to answer for their assaults on the abbot's tenants in Craven, taking their goods and chattels and destroying their houses, and threatening them so that none will return to the abbot's great damage, and if they do not appear then it is requested that they are put out of the king's protection.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face].By the chancellor, 25 November.[On dorse, none].
- Places mentioned
- Lancashire
- Yorkshire
- Over Bordley, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Craven, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Lainger House, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Tranhouse, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Craven, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- John Tunstall of Lancashire
- Robert Worseley (Worsley) of Lancashire
- . . . Dyconson
- John Dene
- Thomas Kydde
- Thomas . . .
- Thomas . . .
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to? 1427 based on the dating attribution in the guard note, though no evidence to support this is given.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.30 of PRO 31/7/117
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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 3453
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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/C9150191/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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