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? No Petitioner named Letter to Henry III from the bishop of Lincoln asking that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/331/15619

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to Henry III from the bishop of Lincoln asking that... dating from [? 1269] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/331/15619
Date
[? 1269]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter to Henry III from the bishop of Lincoln asking that the lay force which still occupies his church of Scalford be removed.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Scalford, [Leicestershire].
People mentioned
Henry [III], King of England
R. (Richard) [Gravesend], bishop of Lincoln.
Note
Dated internally to 4 Nones May (4 May) 126?; the last number is missing. It probably dates to 1269 since it refers to his previous letter complaining about the same lay force in Scalford.
Related material

For the letter mentioned within see SC 8/331/15618

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Royal Letter 496.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9683030/

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