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? No Petitioner named [This document is damaged.]Letter from Edmund, Archbishop of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/191/9540

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named [This document is damaged.]Letter from Edmund, Archbishop of... dating from 1570 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/191/9540
Date
1570
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
[This document is damaged.]Letter from Edmund, Archbishop of York to the Queen, informing her that certain laymen are preventing John May, rector of a moiety of the church of Darfield from exercising his office, and asking her to remove this lay force.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Darfield, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
York diocese.
People mentioned
Edmund [Grindal], Archbishop of York
Elizabeth [I], Queen of England
John May, rector of Darfield
William Jackeson (Jackson), clerk.
Note
Dated 7 June in the first year of Edmund Grindal's period of office as Archbishop of York (1570).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295425/

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