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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prioress and convent of Ankerwyke King and council The Prioress and convent of Ankerwyke...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/30/1496
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This record is about the Prioress and convent of Ankerwyke King and council The Prioress and convent of Ankerwyke... dating from [c. 1327] 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 8/30/1496
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prioress and convent of Ankerwyke
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The Prioress and convent of Ankerwyke complain that they were wrongly deisseised of 30 acres of land and 29 acres of meadow in Datchet by Hugh le Despencer the father, who held them until his death. They request that they might be able to have these lands again, together with the issues taken from them in the meantime.
- Nature of endorsement
- They are to make clear in whose hands the land is.
- Places mentioned
- Ankerwyke, [Buckinghamshire]
- Datchet, Buckinghamshire
- People mentioned
- Alice, Prioress of Ankerwyke
- Hugh le Despencer (Despenser), the father
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This seems to be one of a number of petitions compiled in the period of the fall of the Despensers I the winter of 1326-7 and most likely to have been presented at the parliament of 1327.
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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 16
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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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.406-407 (no.160) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061689/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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