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

Catalogue reference: SC 8/273/13612

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter of the bishop to the king requesting that those who... dating from 1287 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/273/13612
Date
1287
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter of the bishop to the king requesting that those who occupied the church of Icomb by force and arms be removed.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Icomb, [Gloucestershire]
Alvechurch, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
G[Godfrey Giffard], Bishop of Worcester
Edward I, King of England
Richard de Metham, clerk, rector of Icomb.
Note
The letter dates to 1287 as it is dated in its dating clause to the Ides of February 1286 [13 February 1287].
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on a similar matter written on the same day, see SC 8/272/13596

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/C9517559/

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