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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Isabel Lescrop (Scrope), widow of William Lescrop (Scrope). Lescrop (Scrope) Isabel...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/22/1076
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This record is about the Isabel Lescrop (Scrope), widow of William Lescrop (Scrope). Lescrop (Scrope) Isabel... dating from [1404] 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 8/22/1076
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1404]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Isabel Lescrop (Scrope), widow of William Lescrop (Scrope).
- Name(s)
- Lescrop (Scrope), Isabel
- Addressees
- King and lords and commons in parliament.
- Nature of request
- Isabel, widow of William Lescrop, states that one year's payment of the 200 marks granted annually to her by the king, as her husband did not have time to provide for her before he died and his lands were forfeited on his death, is in arrears, and asks that she might have the arrears, and continue to have this sum annually, notwithstanding any ordinances, statutes or petitions made or to be made or presented in this present parliament or elsewhere, and she requests a writ to the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Exchequer, to pay this to her; or otherwise that she might be endowed with her husband's lands which are in the king's hands.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king of his special grace, with the advice and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and at the special prayer and instance of the commons in full parliament, has granted Isabel, who was the wife of the above-mentioned William Lescrop, £100, to be received annually in the Exchequer during the life of the said supplicant, at the feasts of Easter and Michaelmas, in equal proportions.
- People mentioned
- William Lescrop (Scrope), late husband of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Firmly dated to 1404 by reference to CPR 1401-5, p.466.
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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 5055
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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 Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. II, 1401-1405, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.466 (resulting grant to petitioner)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.483b-484a (no.3) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061240/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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