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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Walter de Hungerford, knight. de Hungerford Walter King. Hungerford, who with the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/331/15681
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This record is about the Walter de Hungerford, knight. de Hungerford Walter King. Hungerford, who with the... dating from [? c. 1444] 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 8/331/15681
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1444]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter de Hungerford, knight.
- Name(s)
- de Hungerford, Walter
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Hungerford, who with the King's licence founded a chantry in the church of Farleigh Hungerford, requests that Carpenter be ordained chaplain of that chantry, despite the fact that chantry is no longer in the parish church because this church has been moved to a new location outside the castle. He had named Carpenter as chaplain of his chantry before the church was relocated.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] The council has agreed to this bill.
- Places mentioned
- Farleigh Hungerford, [Somerset]
- Bath, [Somerset]
- Somerset.
- People mentioned
- Katherine [de Hungerford], wife of Walter de Hungerford
- Thomas de Hungerford, knight, father of the petitioner
- Joan [de Hungerford], mother of the petitioner
- William [Southbroke], prior of Bath
- John Gody, chantry chaplain
- Robert Carpynter (Carpenter), chantry chaplain.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1444, when the petitioner was granted a licence to found a chantry in the chapel in Farley Hungerford castle, in lieu of letters patent surrendered because the chapel is now where parish church used to be (CPR 1441-6, p. 327).
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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)
- Latin
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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 Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. IV, 1441-1446, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.327 (licence for petitioner to found chantry, in lieu of letters patent surrendered because chapel is now where parish church used to be)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9683092/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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