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John Hunden, archdeacon of St David's, and late bishop of Llandaff. Hunden John Prince....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/344/E1316A
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This record is about the John Hunden, archdeacon of St David's, and late bishop of Llandaff. Hunden John Prince.... dating from [1476-1482] 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 8/344/E1316A
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1476-1482]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Hunden, archdeacon of St David's, and late bishop of Llandaff.
- Name(s)
- Hunden, John
- Addressees
- Prince.
- Occupation
- archdeacon of St David's, and late bishop of Llandaff
- Nature of request
- Hunden shows that Byford has wrongfully sued various untrue actions against him in the prince's county of Pembroke, and has process of outlawry against him, intending to cause him to forfeit all the revenues and profits that he has to live upon, for Byford knows cannot labour because of his great age, sickness and impotency. He requests that the prince, by the advice of his council, will grant his letters to be directed to his steward and officers to surcease and respite the process and to make a supersedeas to his officers there to surcease the process of outlawry if any exigent or exigency has been awarded, and the petitioner will abide any award or judgment of the council, or that of any person or persons assigned by the prince or his council.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- St David's archdeaconry, [Wales]
- Pembrokeshire, [Wales].
- People mentioned
- Louis Byford, clerk, formerly archdeacon to the petitioner in his bishopric.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1476-1482 because the petitioner refers to himself as late bishop of Llandaff, and as archdeacon of St David's. Hunden resigned the bishopric on 18 March 1476, and at the same time became archdeacon (Handbook of British Chronology, p. 293; Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541, vol. XI, The Welsh Dioceses, p. 60).
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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 Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.532 (calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736736/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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