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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
Item
? No Petitioner named Letter from John de Stryvelyn to the Archbishop of Canterbury,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/298/14871
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter from John de Stryvelyn to the Archbishop of Canterbury,... dating from [1333-1340] 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 8/298/14871
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1333-1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter from John de Stryvelyn to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England, asking for the King's protection for William de Crathorn, serving in his company at Edinburgh, who is impleaded concerning a tenement by two writs, so that he does not lose his land while he is in the King's service. He asks that this protection might be doubled, as, through malice, William is being sued under a different name in each writ. He has appended Robert de Gray's seal to his letter, as he does not have his own with him.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Edinburgh, [Scotland].
- People mentioned
- [John Stratford], Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England
- John de Stryvelyn (Stirling)
- William de Crathorn
- Robert de Gray.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- John Stratford was Archbishop of Canterbury between November 1333 (papal provision) and his death in 1348, and was Chancellor between November 1330 and September 1334, between June 1335 and March 1337, and between April and July 1340. This petition would therefore seem to belong to 1333-1334, to 1335-1337, or to 1340.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518074/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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