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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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Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitallers) in England....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/141/7031
What’s it about?
This record is about the Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitallers) in England.... dating from [? 1310-? 1350] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/141/7031
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1310-? 1350]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitallers) in England.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitallers) in England
- Nature of request
- Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England, states that he should have had possession of the chapel of Baldock, according to the statute granting his order the lands formerly belonging to the Templars in England, and that he had sued to recover it and was in possession until the Bishop of Lincoln presented Nicholas de Fladbury to that chapel. Now a prohibition has been obtained preventing him from doing anything against Nicholas. He asks that this prohibition might be repealed, and that he might be put in possession.
- Nature of endorsement
- The King's sergeants and the Prior are to be summoned to parliament, and when the arguments on one side and the other have been heard, justice is to be done.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Baldock, [Hertfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Knights Templars (Order of the Temple)
- Earl Marshal
- Nicholas de Fladbury
- Bishop of Lincoln.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to '? Ed. III'. However, the appearance and written hand of the petition suggest an earlier range of dates.
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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)
- 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/C9209168/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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