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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Amice Fitz Simon, widow of Richard Fitz Simon. Fitz Simon Amice King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/5/247
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/5/247
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1320-1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Amice Fitz Simon, widow of Richard Fitz Simon.
- Name(s)
- Fitz Simon, Amice
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Amice states that in the thirteenth year of the present king's reign, Simon Fitz Richard brought an assize of novel disseisin against her concerning the manor of Great Dunmow, and a legal process began on this, which Amice lost, through the maintenance of the earl of Hereford, to whom Simon had promised to give the manor. She requests that the king enquire into this.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.The record and process of the assize are to be brought into Chancery, and, when he has called the council, the chancellor is to consider this further etc.
- Places mentioned
- Great Dunmow, [Essex].
- People mentioned
- Simon Fitz Richard (son of Richard), valet of the earl of Hereford
- [Humphrey de Bohun] earl of Hereford
- Robert de Maddynglegh, justice
- Humphrey de Walden, justice, steward of the earl of Hereford
- John de Lachelegh.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- One of a collection of petitions published on pages 387ff of Rot. Parl., vol I., which all seem to date from around 1322, which dating is confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, which dates these petitions to 15 or 16 Edward II (1321-1323). However, CCR 1323-1327, p.263 (dated at the Tower, 25 February 1325) states that Simon gave the manor to Humphrey de Bohun on the Monday after St Gregory, 13 Edward II, and that he died on 4 March, 15 Edward II. As the petition speaks of 13 Edward II as in the past, but makes no mention of Simon being dead, this would date it between 8 July 1320 and 4 March 1322.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition relating to this manor, see SC 8/120/5960
For a near-duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/123/6115
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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 3547
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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 Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.263 (order to John le Porter, keeper of the manor of Dunmow, to assign the manor as dower to Nichola, Simon Fitz Richard's widow, and her new husband)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.398b, no.64 (full edition of original petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. I, pp. 387-415, no. 64 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060367/
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