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? No Petitioner named The founding of the Castle of Dover and the establishment of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/264/13199

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Reference
SC 8/264/13199
Date
[c. 1322]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
The founding of the Castle of Dover and the establishment of monks there [a very detailed, and mostly illegible history of the house of St Martins, Dover from Caesar's invasion of Britain to the death of Whetacre].
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Rome, [Italy]
Gaul (France)
Spain
Dover, [Kent]
Sussex
Canterbury, [Kent]
Kent.
People mentioned
Kassibalan (Cassivellanus)
Julius Caesar
Claudius Caesar
Saxons
Hengest (Hengist)
Gregory, Pope
Archbishop of Canterbury
Ethelbald
Henry I, King of England
William I, King of England
Henry II, King of England
Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury
Osbern, Prior of Dover
Henry [III], King of England
Edward [I], King of England
Anselm [de Eastria], Prior of Dover
John [Peckam], Archbishop of Canterbury
Convent of [Holy Trinity], Canterbury
Robert de Whetacre, Prior of Dover.
Note
No date on the guard, but it probably belongs with the preceding petition. The last event mentioned in the history is the death of Prior Whetacre (1318, see SC 8/128/6387).
Related material

For a petition from the same petitioners see SC 8/82/4093

For a related petition see SC 8/257/12847

For a related petition from the same petitioners see SC 8/128/6383

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/C9517146/

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