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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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Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln. de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln Alice King and council...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/64/3163
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This record is about the Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln. de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln Alice King and council... dating from [c. 1335] 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 8/64/3163
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1335]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln.
- Name(s)
- de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, Alice
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Lacy requests that a speedy remedy be ordained for her so that she may be at her own will and amongst her friends, as she has been ravished by Frene, who has taken her from her castle of Bolingbroke and is detained by him in the Tower of London.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Bolingbroke, [Lincolnshire]
- Somerton, [Lincolnshire]
- London.
- People mentioned
- Hugh de Frene
- John de Lacy, brother of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition apparently dates to c. 1335. In the Complete Peerage it is noted that Lacy was abducted by Freyne and consented to live with him in matrimony by 23 March 1336, and Freyne was dead by January 1337 at the latest (Complete Peerage, VII, p.687)
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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 4889
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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/C9106926/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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