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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Converts of London. King and council. The converts request remedy as they were granted...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/172/8568
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This record is about the Converts of London. King and council. The converts request remedy as they were granted... dating from [c. 1330] 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 8/172/8568
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Converts of London.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The converts request remedy as they were granted all deodands in all of the eyres throughout the realm to repair their chapel and buildings and to provide for their sustenance, but the late chancellor collected 200 marks in the eyre of Northampton and elsewhere and granted and assigned it elsewhere to their great impoverishment.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.2) They should show what they have of the deodands.
- Places mentioned
- London
- Northamptonshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Derbyshire.
- People mentioned
- Henry de Bornhassh (Burghersh), bishop of Lincoln and chancellor.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the Chancery warrant for the grant of the deodands, see no.3308 in C 81/169
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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 Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.76, 80 (orders concerning the payment of sums raised from deodands to be delivered to the conversi)
- Jews of Medieval England, M Adler, (, 1939), pp.355-6 (full edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294433/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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