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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior and Convent of St Anne outside Coventry, and the Prior and Convent of Axholme....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/196/9776
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This record is about the Prior and Convent of St Anne outside Coventry, and the Prior and Convent of Axholme.... dating from 1399 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 8/196/9776
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1399
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and Convent of St Anne outside Coventry, and the Prior and Convent of Axholme.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The Prior and Convent of St Anne outside Coventry, and the Prior and Convent of the house of the Visitation of Our Lady on the Isle of Axholme ask the King to grant their houses various liberties and franchises, which they list, by his charter, as he or his progenitors have granted similar liberties and franchises to other Carthusian houses.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] It was granted by the King at Hereford, on 21 May in his twenty-second year, that the priors and convents specified in this petition should separately and expressly have such liberties and franchises in all things as the houses of Witham and Hinton of the Carthusian order have, and that the Prior and convent of the house of St Anne outside Coventry should have their charter without paying a fine and fee of the petty or great seal for the King's benefit for it.inton p[None on dorse]
- Places mentioned
- Coventry, [Warwickshire]
- Isle of Axholme, [Lincolnshire]
- Hereford, [Herefordshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Endorsement dated 21 May 22 Richard II (1399).CChR 1341-1417 p.382 is also dated 21 May 1399.
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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)
- Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. V, 15 Edw III - 5 Hen V, 1341-1417, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.382 (grant of these liberties to these houses)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295664/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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