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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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Prior of Abergavenny. Chancellor. Prior of Abergavenny The alien Prior of Abergavenny...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/298/14859
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This record is about the Prior of Abergavenny. Chancellor. Prior of Abergavenny The alien Prior of Abergavenny... dating from [1344] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/298/14859
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1344]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior of Abergavenny.
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Occupation
- Prior of Abergavenny
- Nature of request
- The alien Prior of Abergavenny asks that he might have the keeping of his house for 12 marks annually; and also promises that he will pay certain sums for the arrears for the time when it was in the King's hand (between 1 February in the King's seventeenth year and 10 May in the eighteenth), and for the arrears of his own time.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Abergavenny, [Monmouthshire, Wales].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CFR 1337-47 p.370 is dated 15 May 1344, and is clearly in response to this petition.
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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)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.479 (calendar of petition)
- Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. V, Edw III, 1337-1347, (Public Record Office, 1915), p.370 (grant of the keeping of his house to the Prior of Abergavenny, on the terms described here)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518062/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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