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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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Thomas Spenser. Spenser Thomas Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor. Spenser requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/302/15053
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This record is about the Thomas Spenser. Spenser Thomas Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor. Spenser requests... dating from [1416] 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 8/302/15053
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1416]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Spenser.
- Name(s)
- Spenser, Thomas
- Addressees
- Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- Spenser requests that he be granted letters patent of alms so that he can collect alms as he was in the service of the Earl of Dorset at Harfleur and . . . he was maimed in the hand by the French enemies on his way to Fecamp.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Harfleur, [Normandy, France]
- Fecamp, [Normandy, France].
- People mentioned
- [Henry Beaufort], Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor
- [Thomas Beaufort], Earl of Dorset.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1416 as other petitions originally from Chancery Files 548 date to this year.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Chancery Files 548.
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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/C9518257/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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