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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
? No Petitioner named Letter of the archbishop of Canterbury to the king stating...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/268/13394
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter of the archbishop of Canterbury to the king stating... dating from 1425 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 8/268/13394
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1425
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter of the archbishop of Canterbury to the king stating that in their last convocation at St Paul's in London, between 23 April and 18 July, the clergy of his province granted the King half a tenth, listing exemptions and provisos to this grant, and asking that it might please the king and council to give some notable part of this sum to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in support of his charges and burdens.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- London
- Lambeth, [Surrey]
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
- Winchester, [Hampshire]
- Sheen, [Surrey]
- Winchester diocese.
- People mentioned
- Henry [Chichele], archbishop [of Canterbury]
- [William de Wykeham], Bishop of Winchester
- Henry V, King of England
- Henry VI, King of England
- Humphrey [of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The letter is dated to 1425 as it is dated in its dating clause to 23 July 1425.
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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/C9517341/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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