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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
Ellen Ratford, wife of Henry Ratford. Ratford Ellen Chancellor. Ratford requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/302/15064
What’s it about?
This record is about the Ellen Ratford, wife of Henry Ratford. Ratford Ellen Chancellor. Ratford requests... dating from [c. 1422-c. 1433] 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 8/302/15064
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1422-c. 1433]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Ellen Ratford, wife of Henry Ratford.
- Name(s)
- Ratford, Ellen
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- Ratford requests letters of safe-conduct be granted to Vallee to go to France to carry letters to various persons for the delivery of her husband who is a prisoner there, and to return to England with various seals of certain French people for the delivery of Sessay who is held prisoner in England.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- France.
- People mentioned
- Henry Ratford, husband of the petitioner
- Bandet de la Vallee
- Guichard Sessay.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1422-c. 1433 on the basis of the dating of the immediate petitions preceding it.
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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/C9518268/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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