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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Alice Danvers, widow of Ralph Danvers. Danvers Alice King and council Danvers requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/42/2054
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This record is about the Alice Danvers, widow of Ralph Danvers. Danvers Alice King and council Danvers requests... dating from [1322-1326] 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 8/42/2054
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1322-1326]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Alice Danvers, widow of Ralph Danvers.
- Name(s)
- Danvers, Alice
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Danvers requests that no letters of great men be granted to Horewode in disturbance of her right and the law, and that of grace it be granted to her a more hasty recovery out of her poverty and misfortune. Okelond and Horewode with 100 armed men came to her house of Werham, ousting her and taking her goods and chattels, by which Horewode, who was then of the Household of the king and Despenser, the son, brought letters of Despenser hindering her recovery. He has subsequently enfeoffed Berenger who is protected by the earl of Winchester.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let her sue at the common law.
- Places mentioned
- Werham (Warren), Hampshire
- People mentioned
- Ralph Danvers, late husband of the petitioner
- Richard de Okelond
- William de Horewode
- Hugh le Despenser, the son
- Ingeham Berenger
- [Hugh le Despenser], Earl of Winchester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Although one might only expect that someone would complain of the Despensers after their fall, there is no hint in this petition that they are dead, and indeed the petition suggests that they are alive as it makes mention of no further letters of great men being granted. The petition is likely to date to the period of Despenser ascendancy between 1322-6.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a very similar petition by a different petitioner complaining of Okelond and Horewode see SC 8/50/2492
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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 2474
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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/C9062260/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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