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? No Petitioner named Letter under the signet ordering a writ of great seal to the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/246/12297

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter under the signet ordering a writ of great seal to the... dating from [1354] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/246/12297
Date
[1354]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter under the signet ordering a writ of great seal to the keeper of the Fleet Prison to deliver Bocking under mainprise, he being entrusted to him as a mainpernor of Cretyng.
Nature of endorsement
[On face:]On the part of the king.[On dorse, none].
Places mentioned
Fleet prison, London
Hamstead Marshall, [Berkshire].
People mentioned
Edward III, King of England
Keeper of the Fleet prison
Ralph de Bockyngg (Bocking), knight
Edward de Cretyngg (Cretyng), late sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk
Ralph Trelle.
Note
The letter is dated to? 1354 on the basis of the dating of '28 Edw. 3' stamped on the guard. The dating clause dates the letter to 30 December.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439903/

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