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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Smyth (Smith), vicar of St Clement's, Sandwich. Smyth (Smith) Thomas King....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/141/7012
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This record is about the Thomas Smyth (Smith), vicar of St Clement's, Sandwich. Smyth (Smith) Thomas King.... dating from 1456 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 8/141/7012
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1456
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Smyth (Smith), vicar of St Clement's, Sandwich.
- Name(s)
- Smyth (Smith), Thomas
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- vicar of St Clement's, Sandwich
- Nature of request
- Thomas Smyth, vicar of St Clement's, Sandwich, requests the King's letters patent granting him and his successors the right to receive and hold lands, tenements, rents and other possessions, and to acquire lands and rents in Sandwich to the value of 4 marks annually, notwithstanding the statute against putting lands and tenements into mortmain, in order that he might acquire a house to live in, as the church does not have one.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] By Richard, Duke of York, 24 January.[On dorse] The King, by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal in this present parliament, on 21 February in the thirty-fourth year of his reign, granted this bill as it is desired.
- Places mentioned
- Sandwich, [Kent].
- People mentioned
- Richard [Plantagenet], Duke of York.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The endorsement (and CPR 1452-61 p. 283) is dated 21 February 34 Henry VI (1456), and the petition was delivered by Richard Duke of York on 24 January in the same year.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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 and Latin
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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, Hen VI, vol. VI, 1452-1461, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.283 (enrolment of the response to this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209147/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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