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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Lenham. de Lenham John King and council. Lenham requests that he is able...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/324/E610
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This record is about the John de Lenham. de Lenham John King and council. Lenham requests that he is able... dating from [c. 1295-c. 1315] 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 8/324/E610
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1295-c. 1315]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Lenham.
- Name(s)
- de Lenham, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Lenham requests that he is able to make satisfaction for entry into land and rent in Bearsted and have seisin of the same as they are not of the Crown. He has them by grant from Chastel who had them from Richard de Merlay.
- Nature of endorsement
- For John de Lenham.
- Places mentioned
- Bensted (Bearsted), [Kent]
- Leeds barony, Kent.
- People mentioned
- Richard de Merlay
- John de Merlay
- Walter de Chastel.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1295-c. 1315 based upon the hand.
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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/C9682599/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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