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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Dean and canons of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. King. The dean and canons of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/250/12460
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This record is about the Dean and canons of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. King. The dean and canons of... dating from [1388] 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 8/250/12460
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1388]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Dean and canons of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The dean and canons of the free chapel of St Stephen in Westminster palace request that whereas they demised to Burley the manor of Eastling with its goods and chattels at a certain yearly rent, which manor with its goods and with timber found in the manor of Elham, from which Burley had unjustly ejected them, were seized into the King's hand by the judgment against Burley, that they may have all the stock, goods and chattels pertaining to the same, since they are rightly theirs.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Eastling, Kent
- Elham, Kent
- St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Simon de Burley.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1390, with reference to CPR 1388-92, p. 313, a grant in accordance with the petition. However Given-Wilson dates it to the Cambridge parliament of September 1388 (Given-Wilson, 'Richard II and his Grandfather's Will', p. 330).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the Chancery warrant with which this was formerly enclosed see no.6662 of C 81/519
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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 Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.313 (grant in accordance with the petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440066/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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