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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John le Blount, knight. Blount John King and council. John le Blount states that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/17/846
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This record is about the John le Blount, knight. Blount John King and council. John le Blount states that... dating from [c. 1327] 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 8/17/846
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John le Blount, knight.
- Name(s)
- Blount, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- John le Blount states that Hugh le Despenser, the father, held of him in chief a messuage, six acres of land, five acres of meadow, with appurtenances, in Sheepbridge, and a fishery adjoining the manor of Beaumys, which he has now forfeited. John requests seisin after the year and waste, because of his lordship.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to wait.
- Places mentioned
- Sheepbridge, Wiltshire
- Beaumees (Beaumys), Wiltshire.
- People mentioned
- Hugh le Despenser, the father.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Must date to shortly after the fall of the Despensers. CCR 1330-3, p.597 is dated at Westminster, 11 September 1332, and John le Blount is described as lord of Little Sheepridge there, which would suggest that his petition was successful.
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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 424
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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.597 (enrolment of grant for life by petitioner to Peter de Seint Johan, clerk, of rent in Sheepridge)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.416b (no.219) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060989/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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