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Prioress and nuns of Henwood, Warwickshire. King. The prioress and nuns request that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/229/11440
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/229/11440
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1403-1404]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prioress and nuns of Henwood, Warwickshire.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The prioress and nuns request that Norton be warned to be before the chancellor at a certain day to show or say as to why the king's letters made to him presenting him to the church of Everdon ought not to be repealed. The king presented Doun to the church and subsequently granted the advowson to the prioress and nuns, but afterwards presented Norton to the church, Doun having resigned it in exchange for St Martin's, Ludgate.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Everdon, Northamptonshire
- Daventry, Northamptonshire
- Henwood, Warwickshire
- St Martin, Ludgate, London.
- People mentioned
- William Doun, chaplain, parson of Everdon
- William Norton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition must date to the period 22 September 1403 and 29 October 1404 as on the former Norton exchanged another living for the church of Everdon, and on the latter again exchanged Everdon for another living (CPR 1401-5, pp.261, 454).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Chancery Files 528
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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)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. I, 1399-1401, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.94 (grant in free alms to the petitioners of the advowson of the church)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. II, 1401-1405, (Public Record Office, 1905), pp.261, 454 (presentation of Norton to the church of Everdon in exchange for St Martin Ludgate; further exchange with John Russell receiving Everdon)
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Record URL
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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