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? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward I from the Bishop of London, complaining about...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/196/9766

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward I from the Bishop of London, complaining about... dating from 1275 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/196/9766
Date
1275
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter to Edward I from the Bishop of London, complaining about the lay force that has entered the church of Hockley in his diocese and seized the goods of the rector, and asking that this lay force might be removed from the church.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Hockley, [Essex]
London diocese
Stepney, [Middlesex].
People mentioned
Edward [I], King of England
J[John Chishull], Bishop of London
Richard de Stratford, rector of the church of Hockley.
Note
Letter dated to the Ides of February, in the Bishop's first year. John Chishull was consecrated 29 April 1274, so that this letter would be datable to 13 February 1275.
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/C9295654/

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