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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Master and brothers of God's House, Dover. Council. The master and brethren request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/213/10643
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This record is about the Master and brothers of God's House, Dover. Council. The master and brethren request... dating from [c. 1400-c. 1450] 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 8/213/10643
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1400-c. 1450]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Master and brothers of God's House, Dover.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The master and brethren request remedy against Pynham who, plotting the destruction of the hospital, for the past 20 years has brought many false suits by the King's writ and otherwise against the petitioners' servants and tenants in the hospital's lands of Whitfield, River and Coldred, because of which the said servants and tenants have been fined grievously, and Pynham also has caused the said servants and tenants to be put on inquests and juries so that they have lost the greater part of their goods and chattels in issues and amercements, so that the petitioners have lost the greater part of the profit from these lands.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Dover, [Kent]
- Whitfield, [Kent]
- River, [Kent]
- Coldred, [Kent].
- People mentioned
- Thomas Pynham.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated impressionistically, on the basis of the hand and form, to the first half of the fifteenth century.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a petition from the same petitioners see SC 8/43/2125
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334200/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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