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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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Mary de Costowe, widow of Richard de Costowe of Standhill. de Costowe Mary King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/41/2003
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This record is about the Mary de Costowe, widow of Richard de Costowe of Standhill. de Costowe Mary King and... 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 8/41/2003
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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
- Mary de Costowe, widow of Richard de Costowe of Standhill.
- Name(s)
- de Costowe, Mary
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Costowe requests remedy as Snede and the Despensers came to her house and beat and mistreated her until she gave her land of Britwell to them by duress by the lordship of the Despensers in which she only has an estate for the term of her life, and carried away the charters of the land to the disinheritance of her and her son, which land and muniments they still withhold.
- Nature of endorsement
- She should sue at the common law.
- Places mentioned
- Standhill, Oxfordshire
- Beaconsfield, [Buckinghamshire]
- Britwell, [Oxfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Richard de Costowe of Standhill, late husband of petitioner
- Richard Snede of Beaconsfield
- Hugh le Despenser, the father
- Hugh le Despenser, the son.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This has been dated to 1327 on the basis that the petitioner would probably have complained about the actions of the Despensers shortly after their downfall in 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 1349
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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/C9062208/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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