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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Roger Darcy. Darcy Roger Council Darcy requests that a remedy be ordained for him...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/42/2056
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/42/2056
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1356-1368]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Roger Darcy.
- Name(s)
- Darcy, Roger
- Addressees
- Council
- Nature of request
- Darcy requests that a remedy be ordained for him so that he is not disinherited of his estate. His father made a fine settling his estates on him, and after his death passing to John, his son and Eleanor his wife and their heirs male, and on his other sons and their heirs male, should they die without heirs male. His father and brothers are all dead without male heirs, but his brother John died with an heir by another wife. After John the son's death, the king seized the tenements.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Knaith, [Lincolnshire]
- Ketsby, [Lincolnshire]
- Upton, [Lincolnshire]
- Stretton on Fosse, [Warwickshire]
- Stow-on-the-Wold, [Warwickshire].
- People mentioned
- John Darcy, father of the petitioner
- John de Fyncheden, parson of the church of Knaith
- John [Darcy], brother of the petitioner
- Eleanor [Darcy], wife of John Darcy
- Aymer [Darcy], brother of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to the period 1356-68 as an order was issued to take John Darcy the father's lands into the king's hand following his death on 4 February 1356, and to take the lands of the petitioner into the king's hand on 6 November 1368 (CFR 1356-69, pp.15, 397). There is no evidence to date this more closely.
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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 2469
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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/C9062262/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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