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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford. de Bohun, Countess of Hereford Joan King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/18/886
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/18/886
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford.
- Name(s)
- de Bohun, Countess of Hereford, Joan
- Addressees
- King and lords of parliament.
- Nature of request
- Joan, Countess of Hereford, states that she holds the manor of Kimbolton in dower, of the inheritance of Eleanor, wife of Thomas de Wodestoke, Constable of England, and of Mary, her sister, daughters and heirs of the last Earl of Hereford and Constable of England, who are in the king's wardship, which manor is of the Constabulary of England, and that all the manors, lands, tenements and tenants of the Constabulary are quit of toll, pontage, and all other customs throughout the realm of England, and have been from time immemorial. However, there is now a process to distrain her tenants of Kimbolton for contributions to the bridge at Huntingdon, contrary to the franchise. She also holds in dower a third of the manor of Waresley of the honour of Huntingdon and of the inheritance of the aforesaid heirs, which honour is likewise quit of pontage, and her tenants there are also in process of being distrained for the same reason. She requests that the king and lords order the process to be stopped until the heirs are of age.
- Nature of endorsement
- This bill is to be sent to Chancery for justice to be done on it, and the process against the lady and her tenants, and everything belonging to it, is to be stopped until the octaves of St John the Baptist next, and in the meantime she is to sue in discharge of herself and her tenants.
- Places mentioned
- Kynebauton (Kimbolton), [Huntingdonshire]
- Huntingdon, [Huntingdonshire]
- Worsle (Waresley), [Huntingdonshire].
- People mentioned
- Eleanor [de Wodestoke (Woodstock)], wife of Thomas de Woodstock
- Thomas de Wodestoke (Woodstock), Constable of England
- [Humphrey de Bohun] Earl of Hereford, Constable of England
- Mary [de Bohun], sister of Eleanor de Woodstock.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1374-7 p.523, which is clearly in response to this petition, is dated at Westminster, 8 February 1377.
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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 4047
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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. XIV, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.523 (order to John Cavendissh and his companions, justices, to cease the process until the octaves of John the Baptist next)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.30a-b (no.3) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061039/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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