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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
SC 8/22/1076
Date
[1404]
Description
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.
Note
Firmly dated to 1404 by reference to CPR 1401-5, p.466.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5055
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • 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)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061240/

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