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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Cecily Deumarcz of Southwark. Deumarcz Cecily King and council. Cecily Deumarcz,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/20/962
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This record is about the Cecily Deumarcz of Southwark. Deumarcz Cecily King and council. Cecily Deumarcz,... dating from [1377-1385] 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 8/20/962
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1377-1385]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Cecily Deumarcz of Southwark.
- Name(s)
- Deumarcz, Cecily
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Cecily Deumarcz, a poor widow, states that she has a quit-rent of 10 marks per annum for her whole life, from Alice Perers' tenement in the parish of All Hallows the Less in London, and that the Earl of Cambridge was in this tenement for a year and a half, at the time when Alice was expelled from it, but has paid only 40 s., so that she is owed 12 marks. She requests payment, in consideration of her great poverty and debt.
- Nature of endorsement
- She is to sue at common law.
- Places mentioned
- Southwark, [Surrey]
- London.
- People mentioned
- Alice Perers (Perrers)
- [Edmund of Langley], Earl of Cambridge.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A note on the guard dates this petition to 1377-1385, with reference to the expulsion of Alice Perrers and the occupation of the property by the Earl of Cambridge for a year and a half. More specifically, it then says '? 1381-2'. Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.130b (no. 17) edits it amongst petitions from 5 Richard II (22 June 1381 - 21 June 1382).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.16 of PRO 31/7/107
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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 2765
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.130b (no. 17) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061117/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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