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? No Petitioner named Extract of a plea before the justices of the Bench whereby...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/50/2453

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Extract of a plea before the justices of the Bench whereby... dating from 1317 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/50/2453
Date
1317
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Extract of a plea before the justices of the Bench whereby the Gysburns petition for dower against Eleanor de Percy in Buckden, the plea being delayed as Percy and the archbishop of Canterbury, the keepers of the land of Henry de Percy cannot answer without the king.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Buckden, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Sussex
Eboracum (York).
People mentioned
William de Bereford, Justice of the Bench
John de Gysburn (Guisborough)
Beatrice [de Gysburn (Guisborough)], wife of John de Guisborough
William de Staynford, Attorney for John and Beatrice Guisborough
Eleanor [de Percy], widow of Henry de Percy
Reyner de Knol, late husband of Beatrice de Guisborough
Simon de Beverlaco (Beverley), Attorney of Eleanor de Percy
Henry [de Percy], son and heir of Henry de Percy
Walter [Reynolds], Archbishop of Canterbury
Hasculph de Whitwell, Attorney for the Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas de Saltmerssh, Attorney of Eleanor de Percy.
Related material

For the petition to which this extract was originally appended see SC 8/50/2452

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3919
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062666/

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