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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Abbot elect of Glastonbury. [Lost]. Abbot elect of Glastonbury [The petition is badly...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/343/16162
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This record is about the Abbot elect of Glastonbury. [Lost]. Abbot elect of Glastonbury [The petition is badly... dating from [c. 1274] 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 8/343/16162
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1274]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot elect of Glastonbury.
- Addressees
- [Lost].
- Occupation
- Abbot elect of Glastonbury
- Nature of request
- [The petition is badly damaged with a portion of the left-hand side being missing]. The petitioner requests that the archbishop of Canterbury who holds [...] be written to [...] vacancies just as the bishop of Bath and Wells was written to, namely that the consent [...] and this common right.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Glastonbury, [Somerset].
- People mentioned
- Bishop of Bath [and Wells].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1274, as it seems likely to be a petition from John de Taunton shortly before his election to the abbatial chair at Glastonbury had been confirmed (CPR 1272-81, pp. 55, 88).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition, possibly by the same petitioner, see SC 8/308/15362
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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)
- Chancery Unsorted Miscellanea (transferred 30 Oct. 1924).
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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, Edw I, vol. I, 1272-1281, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.55 (signification to the bishop of Bath and Wells of the royal assent to the election of John de Taunton, monk of Glastonbury elected to be abbot of that house) & p.88 (restoration of the temporalities of the house to the new abbot)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736643/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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