BIB_ID
458424
Accession number
MA 14876
Creator
Shuttleworth, John, 1671-1750?, applicant.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 30 x 19.5 cm
Notes
Petition addressed to: Joseph Jekyll, Robert Raymond, and Jefferey Gilbert, Lord Commissioners of the Seals.
With a strip of paper attached legthwise to the left hand margin, with inscriptions identifying the petitioner and Bishop of Winchester.
With a strip of paper attached legthwise to the left hand margin, with inscriptions identifying the petitioner and Bishop of Winchester.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Petition requesting that his son, John Hankins Shuttleworth, be given the vacant vicarage of Preston and Sutton Points in the County of Dorset; with a signed statement by Richard Willis, Bishop of Winchester, attesting to the truth of the circumstances mentioned in the petition, and to the good character of John Shuttleworth and his son.
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