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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Chancy. Chancy John King. Chancy requests that he be granted a certain sum to...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/274/13652
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/274/13652
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1406]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Chancy.
- Name(s)
- Chancy, John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Chancy requests that he be granted a certain sum to be taken annually from the issues and profits of the hundreds of Stone and Catsash during the minority of the heirs of the earl of Huntingdon. He was granted sums from the farm of Grampound by the late king, and from Langacre by the earl of Huntingdon but these have been taken into the king's hand by an act of resumption.
- Nature of endorsement
- 23 October, 8 [Henry IV], it was agreed by those present in the council [named] that the petitioner has what is demanded provided that the letters of the late king, the confirmation and the letters of the earl of Huntingdon are cancelled in Chancery, and should the late king's letters be found by the petitioner that he return them to be cancelled in Chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Grampound, Cornwall
- Langacre, Devon
- Stone hundred, Somerset
- Catsash hundred, Somerset.
- People mentioned
- [John de Holland], Earl of Huntingdon
- Abbot of Tourhill (Glastonbury).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1406 as the response to the petition is dated in its dating clause to 23 October 1406 [8 Henry IV].
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1408, (Public Record Office, 1907), pp.227, 263 (grants of the sum to the petitioner)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517599/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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