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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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Katherine de Mountagu (Montague), widow of William de Montague, Earl of Salisbury....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/62/3060
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This record is about the Katherine de Mountagu (Montague), widow of William de Montague, Earl of Salisbury.... dating from [1348] 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 8/62/3060
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Katherine de Mountagu (Montague), widow of William de Montague, Earl of Salisbury.
- Name(s)
- de Mountagu (Montague), Katherine
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Mountagu requests that the chancellor of Berwick to give her dower according as law and reason demand in the forests of Selkirk and Ettrick which the king gave to her late husband, and which are in the king's hand by the minority of the heir, and she still has not had any dower from them.
- Nature of endorsement
- She should sue to the king.
- Places mentioned
- Forest of Selkirk, Scotland
- Forest of Ettrick, Scotland
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- William de Mountagu (Montague), Earl of Salisbury
- William (de Mountagu (Montague), son and heir of William de Montague, Earl of Salisbury.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1348 in PROME, parliament of January 1348, appendix no. 38.
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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 5848
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.183b (no.35) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of January 1348, Appendix no. 38 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106823/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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