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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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Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester. Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/157/7819
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This record is about the Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester. Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster... dating from [1327] 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 8/157/7819
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester.
- Name(s)
- Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, Henry
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The earl requests that he is able to have a writ as law and reason demand as the chancellor was ordered to have a diem clausit extremum upon which he delivered writs to seize the lands of which Thomas, earl of Lancaster died seised into the king's hand and to make an extent of the same, but the escheators and sub-escheators will not make extents of knight's fees or advowsons because their writs made no mention of them, and the chancellor will not make further writs.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should have writs in Chancery of livery both . . . and advowsons and of . . . and tenements.
- People mentioned
- Thomas [of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1327 as although Henry of Lancaster's title was not challenged from late 1326, he was not formally restored until 3 February 1327. The petition is unlikely to be much later than this date, and may even have preceded it.
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.3a (no.1) (edition of related petition by the same petitioner)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210011/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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