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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
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Prior of the Holy Trinity of Canterbury (Christchurch, Canterbury). King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/338/E1194
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This record is about the Prior of the Holy Trinity of Canterbury (Christchurch, Canterbury). King and council.... dating from [c. 1330] 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 8/338/E1194
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior of the Holy Trinity of Canterbury (Christchurch, Canterbury).
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prior of the Holy Trinity of Canterbury (Christchurch, Canterbury)
- Nature of request
- The prior requests that he and his successors be able to use their jurisdiction in the priory of Dover in times of vacancy in the archbishopric of Canterbury, notwithstanding a grant made to Archbishop Reynolds.
- Nature of endorsement
- [The response is almost entirely illegible and seems to have been deliberately, but incompletely expunged].
- Places mentioned
- Canterbury, [Kent]
- Dover, [Kent].
- People mentioned
- Walter [Reynolds], Archbishop of Canterbury
- Theobald [of Bec], Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1330 as it is clearly after the pontificate of Archbishop Reynolds who died in 1327, and may be contemporary with an inspeximus and exemplification both dating to 1330 (CPR 1327-30, pp. 491, 509).
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), pp.491, 509 (inspeximus of letters patent of Edward II being a record of the recovery of the advowson of Dover Priory against the prior of Canterbury, and exemplification of letters patent confirming the advowson to Archbishop Reynolds)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9683322/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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