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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Humphrey de Grenehulle of East Farleigh. de Grenehulle Humphrey King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/257/12838
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This record is about the Humphrey de Grenehulle of East Farleigh. de Grenehulle Humphrey King and council.... dating from [? c. 1300] 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 8/257/12838
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1300]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Humphrey de Grenehulle of East Farleigh.
- Name(s)
- de Grenehulle, Humphrey
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly damaged.]Humphrey de Grenehulle of East Farleigh states that he twice brought a prohibition in a case [held before] the present Archbishop of Canterbury at the suit of Nicholas de Knovill, parson of Maidstone, not of matrimony or testament, and that the Archbishop and Nicholas had him excommunicated, and had a writ sent to the sheriff of Kent, so that he was wrongly imprisoned for a year and a half and more, and have committed other wrongs against him.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- East Farleigh, [Kent]
- Maidstone, [Kent]
- Tenhom (Teynham), [Kent]
- Kent
- York.
- People mentioned
- [Robert Winchelsey], Archbishop of Canterbury
- Nicholas de Knovill, parson of Maidstone.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Tentatively dated to c. 1300 with reference to the mention of 26 Edward I (20 November 1297-19 November 1298) and to the petitioner's then being imprisoned for a year and a half.Nicholas de Knovill is mentioned in CCW 1244-1326 p.215 (29 April 1304).
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440450/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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