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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
Nicholas .... Nicholas King and council. [The petition is badly damaged with a portion...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/343/16197
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This record is about the Nicholas .... Nicholas King and council. [The petition is badly damaged with a portion... dating from [c. 1350-c. 1380] 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 8/343/16197
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1350-c. 1380]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Nicholas ....
- Name(s)
- Nicholas
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [The petition is badly damaged with a portion being missing from the left-hand side, and much of the right-hand side being illegible].The petitioner requests remedy against certain misprisons so that he is not ousted from his [? benefice]. [The petition refers to a suggestion made to the pope presumably that the petitioner's benefice was void, and the purchase of that benefice, the petitioner appears to have sued for recovery towards the archdeacon of Cornwall without evident success].
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be done for this petition according to the response made to another petition [...] parliament notwithstanding [...].
- Places mentioned
- Exeter bishopric.
- People mentioned
- Archdeacon of Cornwall.
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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)
- 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/C9736678/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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