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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 Blount. Blount John King. [The petition is damaged and is missing a portion...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/342/16111
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This record is about the John Blount. Blount John King. [The petition is damaged and is missing a portion... dating from [c. 1406] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/342/16111
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1406]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Blount.
- Name(s)
- Blount, John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- [The petition is damaged and is missing a portion of its left-hand side, and is in parts illegible].Blount requests that the king will grant him the keeping of the lands and tenements that came into the king's hand by the death of John Sutton [during] the minority of the heir. [This he requests in lieu of] the grant made to the supplicant of £70 from the honour of Tutbury, ... Derby, and £10 from the lands and tenements that were Lord Despenser's in the city of London.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face:]The king has granted this by [the advice of his] council.[On dorse, None].
- Places mentioned
- Tutbury honour
- London.
- People mentioned
- John Sutton
- Lord Despenser.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1406 as the petition cannot be to distant from a commission found in the patent rolls linking the petitioner with the Sutton lands and heir (CPR 1405-8, p. 273).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Unsorted Miscellanea (transferred 7/12/1922).
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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, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1408, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.273 (commission by mainprise of the petitioner and another to Sanchea, widow of Walter Blount, of the keeping of Sutton's heir during his marriage, and his marriage without disparagement)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736592/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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