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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Burton Burton Thomas King's council of his duchy of Lancaster Burton states...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/33/1637
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/33/1637
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1399-1413]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Burton
- Name(s)
- Burton, Thomas
- Addressees
- King's council of his duchy of Lancaster
- Nature of request
- Burton states that Chamberlain died seised in demesne as of fee of certain lands and tenements in Wiltshire of the king of his duchy of Lancaster of the honour of Trowbridge. Agnes his daughter and heir was within age and Rolves came and seized her land's and tenements in Wiltshire and elsewhere and still holds them. He tried to hide Agnes in a nunnery in Wales but she refused to become a nun, so he sent her to Cornwall and sold her to the Bretons. She would have been lost had not Burton married her. He requests that they bring [Rolves] before them to answer for the injuries done to the king as well as of the wrongful occupation of the lands and tenements and the detention of the evidences and muniments.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Wiltshire
- Truebrigge (Trowbridge), [Wiltshire]
- Gloucestershire
- Gales (Wales)
- Cornwall
- Helston, [Cornwall]
- Penryn, [Cornwall]
- People mentioned
- Robert Chamberleyn (Chamberlain)
- Agnes [Burton], wife of Thomas Burton and daughter and heir of Robert Chamberlain
- John Rolves, esquire of Gloucestershire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated tentatively to the reign of Henry IV.
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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 648
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061834/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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