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? No Petitioner named Draft text of a clause granting an exemption to a forthcoming...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/128/6372B

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Draft text of a clause granting an exemption to a forthcoming... dating from [1450] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/128/6372B
Date
[1450]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Draft text of a clause granting an exemption to a forthcoming act of resumption. This relates to property in Cambridgeshire granted at the King's request by the warden and scholars of Merton College, Oxford, to Somerset and Langton to the use of King's College, Cambridge, in exchange for Stratton St Margaret in Wiltshire, and also a pension of 100s paid to Merton by the Abbot and convent of Glastonbury for a corrody granted to that house.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] It is thought reasonable and passed the Lords.
Places mentioned
Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire]
Grantchester, Cambridgeshire
Howes, Cambridgeshire
Girton, Cambridgeshire
Coton, Cambridgeshire
Chesterton, Cambridgeshire
Barnwell, Cambridgeshire
Newnham, Cambridgeshire
Over, Cambridgeshire
Stratton St Margaret, Wiltshire
Glastonbury, [Somerset].
People mentioned
Warden and Scholars of Merton College, Oxford
John Somerset
John Langton
Abbot and Convent of Glastonbury.
Note
The resultant exemption (largely following the text given here) appears on the roll for the 1450 parliament.
Related material

For the petition to which this draft bill was once attached see SC 8/128/6372A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5908; C 49/54/64
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.157 (edition of document)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.186a (full edition of resultant exemption, from parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208550/

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