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Joan Wyndesor (Windsor), daughter of Alice Windsor. Wyndesor (Windsor) Joan King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/22/1060

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Reference
SC 8/22/1060
Date
[? 1393-? 1394]
Description
Petitioners
Joan Wyndesor (Windsor), daughter of Alice Windsor.
Name(s)
Wyndesor (Windsor), Joan
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
Joan, daughter of Alice Wyndesor, states that her suit against John de Wyndesore to recover 2000 marks, due to her from the sale of the marriage of the Earl of Nottingham, which was granted to her by Edward III, has been obstructed by Thomas Colrede, under-sheriff and judge of London, Richard Forster, John de Wyndesore's attorney, and John, his clerk, who have altered the record of an inquisition held into the matter. She requests a remedy, and that she might be able to have her goods from John de Wyndesore, or from the three people who fraudulently altered the record, as people learned in the law have told her would be just and reasonable.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
London.
People mentioned
Alice Wyndesor (Windsor) [Perrers]
Edward [III], King of England
[John de Mowbray], Earl of Nottingham
William de Wyndesore (Windsor)
[Margaret Marshal], Countess of Norfolk
[John of Gaunt], Duke of Lancaster
[Thomas of Woodstock], Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Buckingham
John de Wyndesore (Windsor)
Thomas Colrede, under-sheriff and judge of London
Richard Forster, attorney of John de Wyndesore
John, clerk of Richard Forster.
Note
This petition is assigned by Rot. Parl. vol. III pp.327b-328a (no. 13) to 17 Richard II (22 June 1393 - 21 June 1394). Most of these petitions do seem to be from this year.CCR 1392-6 pp.48-9, which is not perhaps directly relevant to the dating, is dated at Westminster, 10 January 1393.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8501
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1392-1396, (Public Record Office, 1925), pp.48-9 (order to sheriffs of London to release John Wyndesore from Newgate gaol, with mention of the petitioner's suit, vacated because nothing done thereupon)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.327b-328a (no.13) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061224/

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