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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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? No Petitioner named Letter to Richard II from Richard, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/236/11789
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to Richard II from Richard, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield,... dating from 1389 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 8/236/11789
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1389
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter to Richard II from Richard, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, complaining that certain lay people have occupied the church of Legh with force and arms, preventing him from exercising his office there, and asking the King to order that this lay force be removed.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Legh (Leigh) [unidentified]
- Coventry and Lichfield diocese
- Lichfield, [Staffordshire].
- People mentioned
- Richard [II], King of England
- Richard [Le Scrope], Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
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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)
- Latin
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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/C9335349/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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