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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan Toulouse, widow of John son of John Toulouse. Toulouse Joan King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/17/829
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/17/829
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1346]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan Toulouse, widow of John son of John Toulouse.
- Name(s)
- Toulouse, Joan
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Joan, the widow of John son of John Toulouse states that her late husband held two messuages with appurtenances in London jointly with her, to them and to the heirs of their bodies, and that he was convicted of felony as a clerk before the justices of gaol delivery at Newgate, and sent to the bishop of London's prison. The king seized the messuages into his hand, and has taken the issues, but John has now died of natural causes in prison: as the bishop has certified in Chancery on the king's orders. She requests that the messuages be restored to her, as she has nothing else on which to live.
- Nature of endorsement
- When the king is duly informed of the death of John son of John, and that Joan holds jointly in tail, as the petition implies, she is to have restitution of the said messuages according to its tenor.
- Places mentioned
- London
- Newgate, [London].
- People mentioned
- John [Toulouse], son of John Toulouse.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1346-9 p.124 is dated at Windsor, 16 November 1346.
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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 8073
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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. VIII, 1346-1349, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.124 (order to mayor and sheriffs of London to remove king's hand from messuages mentioned in the petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.412b (no.191) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060972/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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