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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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Deans, canons and vicars of the college of St Mary in the Newarke, Leicester. King....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/336/15875
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This record is about the Deans, canons and vicars of the college of St Mary in the Newarke, Leicester. King.... dating from [? 1438] 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 8/336/15875
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1438]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Deans, canons and vicars of the college of St Mary in the Newarke, Leicester.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The deans, canons and vicars of the college of St Mary in the Newarke, Leicester request that Wymondeswold, Fletcher, Bower, Dalton, Moredok, Glover, Bower, Fletcher, Driver, Bacon and Tirlyngton be ordered by writ to come before the council to be punished for inciting a riot of 700 or 800 armed townspeople against the college and its inhabitants, trampling the town's mayor in the process.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Leicester, [Leicestershire].
- People mentioned
- William Wymondeswold
- Peter Fleccher (Fletcher)
- William Bower
- Thomas Dalton, mercer
- Robert Moredok, lattener
- Harry Glover within the south gate of Leicester
- Hugh Bower
- Robert Fleccher (Fletcher)
- John Driver
- Robert Bacon, cook
- John Tirlyngton the younger, tailor of Leicester
- community of Leicester
- mayor of Leicester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition probably dates to 1438, since it refers to events of Wednesday 7 May; the handwriting seems to be from the reign of Henry VI and the address after his minority, and William Wymondeswold of Leicester is mentioned in this year (CPR 1436-41, p. 106).
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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)
- English
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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. III, 1436-1441, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.106 (money due to Wymondeswold at Leicester)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736263/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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