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? No Petitioner named Letter from the sub-prioress and convent of Grace Dieu in Leicestershire...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/123/6112
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/123/6112
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1318
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter from the sub-prioress and convent of Grace Dieu in Leicestershire to Edward II, regarding the election of one of their number to succeed Agnes Gurdon as prioress of their house. They note that the provision to the house is in the king's hands due to the three co-heiresses of Theobald de Verdon being under-age, but that they have been asked to elect a prioress according to the customs of their order.
- Nature of endorsement
- Joan de Hastings and Cecilia de Mountfort, nuns of the house, have applied to the court for a licence to elect.
- Places mentioned
- Priory of Grace Dieu, Leicestershire.
- People mentioned
- Sub-prioress and Convent of Grace Dieu, Leicestershire
- Agnes Gurdon, former prioress of Grace Dieu
- Joan [de Verdon], daughter and co-heir of Theobald de Verdon
- Elizabeth [de Verdon], daughter and co-heir of Theobald de Verdon
- Margery [de Verdon], daughter and co-heir of Theobald de Verdon
- Theobald de Verdon
- Joan de Hastings, nun of Grace Dieu
- Cecilia de Mountfort, nun of Grace Dieu.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in the dating clause to 8 April 1318. A long note on the guard details the archival history of this document and the other documents formerly attached to it (formerly Parliamentary Petitions 5214-5, now SC 1/37/95 and C 146/10210). Further notes concerning the original arrangement are included on the guard of C 146/10210.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another supporting document formerly attached to these documents see C 146/10210
For instructions to elect and the consequent writs, formerly attached to this document, see no.95 in SC 1/37
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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 5213
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.134 (power for the abbot of Leicester to grant the royal assent to the election) & p.136 (similar power to take fealty from the new prioress) & p.139 (notification to the Bishop of Lincoln of the election of Joan de Hastings as prioress) & p.142 (order to the escheator to restore the temporalities of the priory)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208282/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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