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Joan de Gurney, Lady of Gurney. de Gurney, Lady of Gurney Joan The lady requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/49/2446

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This record is about the Joan de Gurney, Lady of Gurney. de Gurney, Lady of Gurney Joan The lady requests... dating from [1331-1332] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/49/2446
Date
[1331-1332]
Description
Petitioners
Joan de Gurney, Lady of Gurney.
Name(s)
de Gurney, Lady of Gurney, Joan
Nature of request
The lady requests that the king issues a writ to Guilsborough as he has valued the corn for the use of the king, but did not wish to write anything to the escheator, because when they have had patents of Chancery the escheator has done nothing.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Gurney, [Somerset].
People mentioned
Roger de Gyldesborgh (Guilsborough)
William Trossel (Trussel), Escheator.
Note
Dated here tentatively to the second of the two terms of William Trussel as escheator of England below the Trent (the first being a very short period in 1327).
Related material

For a related petition, see SC 8/296/14778

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3890
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062659/

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