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? No Petitioner named Letter of the bishop to the king requesting that the sheriff...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/272/13598

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter of the bishop to the king requesting that the sheriff... dating from 1294 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/272/13598
Date
1294
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter of the bishop to the king requesting that the sheriff of Cornwall be commanded to remove the lay power occupying the church of Lanteglos.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Lanteglos, [Cornwall]
Chudleigh, [Devon].
People mentioned
Thomas [Bitton], Bishop of Exeter
Edward I, King of England.
Note
The letter dates to 1293 as it is dated in its dating clause to 17 Kalends of January 1293 [15 December 1293].
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/C9517545/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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