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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
Item
? Bishop of Chester (Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. [Lost] ? Bishop of Chester...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/342/16134
What’s it about?
This record is about the ? Bishop of Chester (Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. [Lost] ? Bishop of Chester... dating from [? c. 1300-? c. 1325] 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 8/342/16134
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1300-? c. 1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? Bishop of Chester (Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
- Addressees
- [Lost]
- Occupation
- ? Bishop of Chester (Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
- Nature of request
- [The petition is badly damaged with only a portion of the middle of the petition surviving so that the full sense is not clear].The petitioner refers to a right that he has by point of charter, and refers to his men being quit of murder. Reference is made to the confines of the counties of Warwickshire [and (presumably) Staffordshire, and to the hundred of Offlow, and the petitioner refers to his profits from a court from which he has now been ousted. The petitioner requests an order and delivery presumably of the court or profits.
- Nature of endorsement
- [...] record and process [...] parts as far as the quindene of Easter and that [...] and that the same abbot the record and process has in the [...] parliament as before etc.
- Places mentioned
- Warwickshire
- Offlow hundred, [Staffordshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to? c. 1300-? C. 1325 on the basis of the hand.
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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 6/3/24).
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736615/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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