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? No Petitioner named Letter of the archbishop requesting that lay power be removed...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/270/13469

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter of the archbishop requesting that lay power be removed... dating from 1288 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/270/13469
Date
1288
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter of the archbishop requesting that lay power be removed from the church of Hailsham where the abbot of Bayham has intruded against sentence of the archbishop's court and against Blechington's peaceful possession.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Hailsham, [Sussex]
South Malling, [Sussex].
People mentioned
John [Pecham], Archbishop of Canterbury
Edward I, King of England
Abbot of Bayham
Robert de Blechington.
Note
The letter dates to 1288 as the dating clause gives a date of 2nd of the Ides of March anno Domini 1287 [14 March 1288].
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/C9517416/

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