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Margaret Scrope, widow of Roger Scrope. Scrope Margaret Commons of parliament. Margaret,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/24/1176
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/24/1176
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1421]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Margaret Scrope, widow of Roger Scrope.
- Name(s)
- Scrope, Margaret
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- Margaret, widow of Roger Scrop, asks the commons to ask the Duke of Bedford and the lords that by authority of the present parliament she might be privy to, and have advantage of, the record in the King's Bench by which John Nyandser, her late husband, was acquitted of raping her, and that she might be able to enter into all the manors, lands and tenements assigned to her as dower from her late husband Roger Scrop, notwithstanding anything done by John Nyandser, or any seizure of these manors, lands or tenements into the king's hand, or any letters patent made concerning them, notwithstanding.
- Nature of endorsement
- The petitioner has the choice of suing to the king to have his grace on this matter, or to sue in Chancery to have her recovery, according to the course of common law.
- Places mentioned
- Cliffe, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Downam (Downholme), [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Walbourne (Walburn), [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Morek (Marrick), [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Middilton (Middleton Quernhow), [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Sinderby, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Thornborough, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Edlington, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Burton [unidentified], [Yorkshire]
- Bracken, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Sladmere (Sledmere), [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Warnesworth (Warmsworth), [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Braithwell, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Wadworth, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Alworthlay (Alverley), [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Loversall, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Bentley, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Hull (Kingston upon Hull), [East Riding of] Yorkshire
- Hambleden, [Buckinghamshire].
- People mentioned
- Roger Scrope, knight
- Nicholas Strellay (Strelley), knight
- Richard de Norton
- John Tibbay (Tebay), clerk
- John Nyandser, husband of petitioner
- Richard le Scrop (Scrope), son and heir of petitioner
- William Acworth (Ackworth)
- [Thomas Montagu], Earl of Salisbury
- Guy Fairfax
- William Biggyngs (Biggins)
- [John of Lancaster], Duke of Bedford, Lieutenant of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition is edited in Rot. Parl. vol. IV p.164a-b (no. 2) as being from 9 Henry V (21 March 1421 - 20 March 1422). In that case it would have been presented at the parliament of December 1421, when the Duke of Bedford was presiding. Other parliaments presided over by him were those of October 1419 and November 1417. A note on the guard says 'Prob. Dec. 1421, cf. preced. + seq.'
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A duplicate petition addressed to the Duke of Buckingham and the lords is SC 8/24/1175
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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 7668
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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. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.164a-b (no.2) (full edition of later copy of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061345/
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