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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mary de Merk, widow of John de Merk. de Merk Mary King and council. Mary shows that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/4/175
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This record is about the Mary de Merk, widow of John de Merk. de Merk Mary King and council. Mary shows that... dating from [1320] 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 8/4/175
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mary de Merk, widow of John de Merk.
- Name(s)
- de Merk, Mary
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Mary shows that she and her late husband were given the manor of Comberton by Edward I. Following John de Merk's death she leased the manor to Hasting for his life for £16, and following Hastings' death the king entered the manor and assigned it to Felton. She requests that the king give her her manor or the farm of £16, as Hasting only had a life interest in the same.
- Nature of endorsement
- Henry le Scrope and his associates are to be ordered by writ that they call Felton before them, and view the charters of both Merk and Felton which they have of the king and hear their reason, certifying the king so that he can then do justice to the plaintiff.
- Places mentioned
- Comberton, [Cambridgeshire]
- Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].
- People mentioned
- John de Merk, late husband of the petitioner
- Philip de Hasting (Hastings)
- Roger de Felton
- Henry le Scrop (Scrope).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1320 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.365 for the parliament held on Monday in the octave of St Michael, 14 Edward II.
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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)
- Parliamentary Petition 5882
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.499 (licence relating to the Hastings interest in Comberton)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.381b (no.93) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060295/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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