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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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Agnes de Vylers (Villers), widow of Francis de Villers. de Vylers (Villers) Agnes...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/14/678
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This record is about the Agnes de Vylers (Villers), widow of Francis de Villers. de Vylers (Villers) Agnes... dating from [1331] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/14/678
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Agnes de Vylers (Villers), widow of Francis de Villers.
- Name(s)
- de Vylers (Villers), Agnes
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Vylers requests that she be granted a corrody for herself and her daughter in the abbey of Barking for the service that her husband did for Edward I and Edward II.
- Nature of endorsement
- It seems to the council that it would be charitable to her to order there or elsewhere, if it pleases the king.
- Places mentioned
- Holy Land
- Gascony, [France]
- Wales
- Scotland
- Flanders
- Barking, [Essex].
- People mentioned
- Francis de Vylers (Villers) bachelor of Edward II, late husband of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This must date to 1331 when the king requested that the abbess of Barking admit Vylers (CCR 1330-3, p.407).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/81/4013
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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 8281
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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 III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.407 (request by the king to the abbess of Barking to admit Vylers)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.381b-382a (no.22) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060819/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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