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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Abraham, clerk. Abraham John King. clerk John Abraham requests licence to travel...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/224/11188
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/224/11188
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1389]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Abraham, clerk.
- Name(s)
- Abraham, John
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- clerk
- Nature of request
- John Abraham requests licence to travel to Rome to purchase a benefice for himself from the Pope. He also requests that the king grant a new presentation, if necessary, to Thomas More of the treasurership of Abergwili with the prebend of Llangammarch, as the temporalities of the bishop of St David's are in the king's hands.
- Nature of endorsement
- [on face] The king has granted this.
- Places mentioned
- Rome, [Italy]
- Aberguilly (Abergwili), [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
- Llangammarch, [Brecknockshire, Wales].
- People mentioned
- Pope
- Thomas More, clerk.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard, and by Rees, to? c.1389, with reference to various related an unrelated enrolments from this period.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/186/9259
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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 Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.376 (translation of petition, with references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334748/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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