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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Baston. de Baston John King. Baston requests a grant of 40 square feet of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/245/12234
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/245/12234
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Baston.
- Name(s)
- de Baston, John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Baston requests a grant of 40 square feet of land in a place called Wykedaymarket, where he has built a chapel dedicated to John the Baptist and Edward of Caernarfon (Edward II), the cross above the chapel doing great miracles.
- Nature of endorsement
- [Continuation of petition:]And also order by letters to the prior of Lenton that one chaplain is to be able to sing in the chapel. And also let it be ordered by letters to the bishop of Carlisle and certain other bishops to examine and consecrate the chapel.
- Places mentioned
- Gloucester, [Gloucestershire]
- Wykedaymarket (Weekday Cross), Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire]
- Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire]
- Lenton Priory, [Nottinghamshire].
- People mentioned
- Edward of Caernarfon
- [Edward II, King of England]
- Prior and convent of Lenton
- [John Kirkby], Bishop of Carlisle.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the inquisition ad quod damnum to examine whether the chapel may remain, see C 143/255/4
For the privy seal warrant in which this petition was formerly enclosed, see no. 13286 in C 81/268
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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)
- Records of the Borough of Nottingham, being a series of extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Nottingham, vol. I, ed. W.H. Stevenson and J. Raine, (Manchester University Press, 1882), pp.401-403 (several contemporary references to the petitioner in witness to Nottingham deeds)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439840/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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