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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Edward of Langley, Duke of York. Langley, Duke of York Edward King. Langley requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/153/7611
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This record is about the Edward of Langley, Duke of York. Langley, Duke of York Edward King. Langley requests... dating from 1398 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 8/153/7611
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1398
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Edward of Langley, Duke of York.
- Name(s)
- Langley, Duke of York, Edward
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Langley requests that he be granted the office of constable of England with all that pertains to it just as previous constables had.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face].This petition is granted by the king on Monday next after the feast of St Edward the Confessor in the twenty-second year.[On dorse, none].
- People mentioned
- [Henry of Bolingbroke], Earl of Northampton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated in the response to the petition to 14 October 1398 (Monday next after the feast of St Edward the Confessor, anno 22). The date is further confirmed by another petition by the same petitioner but styling himself as constable, and which is dated in a similar fashion to 22 November 1398 (SC 8/45/2202). The petition postdates the grant during pleasure, and the two grants for life of the office of constable to the petitioner made between July 1397 and September 1398 (CPR 1396-9, pp.171, 359, 423).
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1909), pp.171, 359, 423 (grant during pleasure, and two grants for life of the office of constable to the petitioner)
- Richard II and the death of the Duke of Gloucester, R.L. Atkinson, (English Historical Review, XXXVIII, pp. , 1923), pp.563-4 (edition and discussion of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209799/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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