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? No Petitioner named Text of an exemption to the current act of resumption requested...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/150/7498A

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Text of an exemption to the current act of resumption requested... dating from [1455] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/150/7498A
Date
[1455]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Text of an exemption to the current act of resumption requested by the Dean and canons of the chapel of St Stephen, Westminster.
Nature of endorsement
The King, by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal, agrees to this proviso according to its content, provided always that his grant made to the said Dean and canons of the wages of 6d. per day for the keeping of the said clock is not to be included in the proviso.
Places mentioned
Westminster
Frampton, Dorset
River Thames.
People mentioned
The Dean and canons of the chapel of St Stephen, Westminster
John Prentys (Prentice), Dean of the chapel of St Stephen, Westminster.
Related material

For the petition requesting this exemption, see SC 8/150/7498B

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
C 49/63.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.305b-306a (enrolment of this exemption on the roll of parliament)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209683/

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