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Not specified. King. The petitioner requests that the king take the hospital of St...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/185/9225

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This record is about the Not specified. King. The petitioner requests that the king take the hospital of St... dating from [1421] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/185/9225
Date
[1421]
Description
Petitioners
Not specified.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The petitioner requests that the king take the hospital of St Bartholomew in Gloucester into his hands and commit its keeping to the bishop and others, as it has been badly wasted and impoverished by the actions of former masters.
Nature of endorsement
[Illegible.]
Places mentioned
Gloucester, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
[Philip Morgan], Bishop of Worcester
William Babyngton (Babington)
Thomas Mille (Mill)
Thomas Stevenes (Stevens).
Note
The requested grant was issued on 3 April 1421, and a copy of the grant is at SC 8/185/9226. The petitioner is not specified, but the petition was presumably presented either from someone connected with the hospital, or from the Bishop and his colleagues themselves.
Related material

For a copy of the requested letters patent see SC 8/185/9226

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen V, vol. II, 1416-1422, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.375 (requested grant)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295103/

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