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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
Item
? No Petitioner named Letter of the bailiffs and community of Northampton to the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/215/10719
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter of the bailiffs and community of Northampton to the... dating from 1393 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 8/215/10719
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1393
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter of the bailiffs and community of Northampton to the chancellor and council stating that, although Stormesworth and others of his faction maliciously informed the council that Fox governed the town badly, both by supporting Lollardy and disturbing the peace, Fox governed the town well and loyally and treated the people well during his entire term as mayor.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Northampton, [Northamptonshire].
- People mentioned
- Bailiffs and community of Northampton
- Richard Stormesworth of Northampton
- John Fox, mayor of Northampton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated internally to the Monday after the feast of St George in the 16th year of Richard II (28 April 1393).
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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)
- Heresy and Lay Power under Richard II, H.G. Richardson, (Transactions of the Cumberland and Westm, 1936), p.27 (edition of petition, mis-referenced and mis-dated)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334275/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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