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Lettice Cook of Stretton. Cook Lettice Archbishop of York, Chancellor. Cook requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/302/15100

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This record is about the Lettice Cook of Stretton. Cook Lettice Archbishop of York, Chancellor. Cook requests... dating from [? 1393-? 1396] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/302/15100
Date
[? 1393-? 1396]
Description
Petitioners
Lettice Cook of Stretton.
Name(s)
Cook, Lettice
Addressees
Archbishop of York, Chancellor.
Nature of request
Cook requests that her sons be granted the king's protection when they are released from prison in France where they were captured while in the service of Scrope, and that their assigns are able to collect alms towards their ransom as they have no means by which to pay it.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Stretton, [Derbyshire]
Cherbourg, [Normandy, France]
Coutances, [Normandy, France].
People mentioned
[Thomas Arundel], Archbishop of York, Chancellor
William Scroop (Scrope), knight, Captain of Cherbourg
Robert Rotur, son of the petitioner
John Rotur, son of the petitioner.
Note
The petition is dated to? 1393-? 1396 based on the dating of the petition given in the guard note. The petition probably dates to Arundel's second period as chancellor from 1391-1396, and the narrower date probably depends on Scrope's term as captain of Cherbourg.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518304/

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