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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Agate (Agatha) de Bray. de Bray Agate (Agatha) King and council. Agatha Bray shows...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/33/1644
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This record is about the Agate (Agatha) de Bray. de Bray Agate (Agatha) King and council. Agatha Bray shows... dating from [c. 1330] 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 8/33/1644
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Agate (Agatha) de Bray.
- Name(s)
- de Bray, Agate (Agatha)
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Agatha Bray shows that she sued a writ of trespass against Bletsoe before the justices in eyre in Bedfordshire, and he was attached by a capias at her suit and given into the keeping of the sheriff, who released him without process of law and order of the justices, so that she is unable to have remedy or recovery of her suit or of the trespass. She requests remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- She should have a writ of trespass in the form contained in the petition.
- Places mentioned
- Bedfordshire
- Bletsoe, Bedfordshire.
- People mentioned
- John [Faresteson], son of William Faresteson of Bletsoe
- William Faresteson of Bletsoe
- John le Mareschal (Marshal), sheriff of Bedfordshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition must date to c.1330 for the sheriff John le Mareschal held office from July 1328 to December 1330. Even had he left office, it is unlikely that this petition would be much later.
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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 616
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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/C9061841/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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