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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Nanfan, Governor of the Channel Islands. Nanfan John Lords of Council in Parliament....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/118/5892
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This record is about the John Nanfan, Governor of the Channel Islands. Nanfan John Lords of Council in Parliament.... dating from [1454] 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 8/118/5892
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1454]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Nanfan, Governor of the Channel Islands.
- Name(s)
- Nanfan, John
- Addressees
- Lords of Council in Parliament.
- Occupation
- Governor of the Channel Islands
- Nature of request
- Nanfan requests that the agreements made with him concerning the governorship of the Channel Islands be kept, and that he receive the payments he is owed. He states that the islands are in great poverty due to invasions, that he has not been paid his salary for part of his time in office, and that the customers of Dartmouth and Exeter have not handed over sums due to the islands. He has also personally had to pay £1000 to the captains of Cherbourg and St Sauveur to safeguard the lives of hostages held by them.
- Nature of endorsement
- Memorandum that on 5 March 32 Henry VI (1454), the king, by the advice and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament, agreed that the appointments and covenants made between the king and John Nanfan, esquire, for the custody and governance of Jersey and Guernsey be observed and kept according to the tenor of the letters made under the Great and Privy seals, and that writs of execution and other warrants be made upon them.
- Places mentioned
- Jersey, [Channel Islands]
- Guernsey, [Channel Islands]
- Channel Islands
- Dartmouth, [Devon]
- Exeter, [Devon]
- Cherbourg, [Normandy, France]
- St Sauveur le Vicomte, [Normandy, France].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The endorsement is dated 5 March 1454, and was presumably presented to the final session of the 1453-4 Reading/Westminster Parliament. Nanfan served as Governor from 1452-7, and again 1460-1.
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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 4522
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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)
- English
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), pp.89-90 (full edition and translation of petition and endorsement)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150573/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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