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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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Margaret Godefeld, widow of Robert de Godefeld. Godefeld Margaret King and council...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/49/2422
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This record is about the Margaret Godefeld, widow of Robert de Godefeld. Godefeld Margaret King and council... dating from [c. 1300-c. 1325] 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 8/49/2422
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1300-c. 1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Margaret Godefeld, widow of Robert de Godefeld.
- Name(s)
- Godefeld, Margaret
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Godefeld requests that a remedy be ordained for her, and if it pleases the king and council that they order Vigerous to the Tower of London where he can be kept safely, as he has been imprisoned in Newgate at the suit of Godefeld for the death of her husband, but has been allowed out by the keeper. She also asks that the inquest into her husband's death be held in the Tower for fear of Vigerous' friends and allies in London, Vigerous being born in London, and his friends having menaced Godefeld and her council.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered to the keeper of the prison that he should keep Nicholas just as those who should be imprisoned for the death of people by appeal, not permitting him out of prison under pain that pertains.
- Places mentioned
- Brokesholm (Broxholme), [Lincolnshire]
- Stixwould, [Lincolnshire]
- Newgate, [London]
- Londres (London).
- People mentioned
- Robert de Godefeld, late husband of the petitioner
- Nicholas Vigerous, Parson of Broxholme
- Richard de Herereford, Keeper of Newgate Prison.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- No positive context has been established, and the petition is dated here tentatively to the first quarter of the fourteenth century on the basis of the hand and the Latin endorsement. See also SC 8/49/2423.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petitioner by the same petitioner see SC 8/49/2423
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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 3911
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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/C9062635/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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