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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert Waldshaf and Agnes Waldshaf, his wife, lepers. Waldshaf; Waldshaf Robert;...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/296/14783
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This record is about the Robert Waldshaf and Agnes Waldshaf, his wife, lepers. Waldshaf; Waldshaf Robert;... dating from [1328-1330] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/296/14783
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1328-1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert Waldshaf and Agnes Waldshaf, his wife, lepers.
- Name(s)
- Waldshaf; Waldshaf, Robert; Agnes
- Addressees
- Bishop of Lincoln, Chancellor of England.
- Nature of request
- Robert Waldshaf and Agnes his wife, who are lepers, state that the Hospital of St Giles at Boughton, outside Chester, which was founded by Earl Ranulph and is now in the King's hand, was founded for lepers alone, but is now charged with other people who are not sick. They request a commission to the Justice and Mayor of Chester to visit the hospital and to establish it according to the tenor of its charter and the ancient custom. And they, who entered the hospital through the King, ask that they might be served with what he granted them there.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Boughton, [Cheshire]
- Chester, [Cheshire].
- People mentioned
- [Henry Burghersh], Bishop of Lincoln, Chancellor of England
- Ranulph [de Blundeville], Earl of Chester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable by reference to Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln, who was Chancellor of England between July 1328 and November 1330.CCR 1327-30 p.155 is dated 6 August 1327.
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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 Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.155 (order to the Prior of Huntingdon to visit the hospital of St Margaret, Huntingdon, to see if it can provide sufficient support for Robert Waldshaf)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517984/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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