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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Eleanor de Ferrers, widow of William de Douglas. de Ferrers Eleanor King. Eleanor...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/9/448
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This record is about the Eleanor de Ferrers, widow of William de Douglas. de Ferrers Eleanor King. Eleanor... dating from [1302] 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 8/9/448
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Eleanor de Ferrers, widow of William de Douglas.
- Name(s)
- de Ferrers, Eleanor
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Eleanor de Ferrers, widow of William de Douglas, requests her dower from the lands that belonged to her late husband in Scotland.
- Nature of endorsement
- She is to have a writ to the Chancellor of Scotland to assign to her reasonable dower according to the law and custom of those parts.
- Places mentioned
- Scotland.
- People mentioned
- William de Douglas.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1296-1302 p.540 is dated at Westminster, 22 July 1302.CCR 1296-1302 p.229 is rather earlier, being dated at Thetford, 24 January 1298.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.72 of PRO 31/7/93
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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 3520
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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 I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.540 (order to the king's Lieutenant in Scotland to restore to Eleanor her dower from the lands of her first husband in Scotland); p.229 (similar order concerning English lands to the Escheator south of the Trent)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.470a, no.55 (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060574/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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