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9 - Grace and favour: the petition and its mechanisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

By
Gwilym Dodd  and
Sophie Petit-Renaud
Edited by
Christopher Fletcher ,
Jean-Philippe Genet  and
John Watts
Christopher Fletcher
Affiliation:
Université de Paris I
Jean-Philippe Genet
Affiliation:
Université de Paris I
John Watts
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300–c.1500 , pp. 240 - 278
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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