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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
John Lion of Scotland. Lion John Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor. Lion requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/302/15057
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This record is about the John Lion of Scotland. Lion John Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor. Lion requests... dating from [1416-1417] 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 8/302/15057
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1416-1417]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Lion of Scotland.
- Name(s)
- Lion, John
- Addressees
- Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- Lion requests the grant of safe-conduct for Fauside to come to England with one companion and freely to pass to Scotland.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Scotland
- Bruges, [Belgium].
- People mentioned
- [Henry Beaufort], Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor
- William de Fauside, kinsman of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1416-1417 on the basis of the dating given in Bains (Vol. IV, no.878). The dating for petitions from Chancery Files 548 would date this petition to 1416, so that Bains's dating is probably correct.
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. IV, 1357-1509, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.878 (calendar of petition and another related petition by the same petitioner)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518261/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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