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? No Petitioner named Letter of the bishop requesting that the lay power preventing...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/270/13460

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter of the bishop requesting that the lay power preventing... dating from 1305 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/270/13460
Date
1305
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter of the bishop requesting that the lay power preventing him from holding his spiritual office in the church of Fulbourn be removed.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Fulbourn, [Cambridgeshire]
Downham, [Cambridgeshire].
People mentioned
[Robert de Orford, Bishop of] Ely
Edward I, King of England.
Note
The letter is dated to 1305 as the dating clause gives the date of 6 April 1305.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517407/

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SC 8

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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