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Prioress of Stixwold. King and council. Prioress of Stixwold The prioress requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/73/3612
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This record is about the Prioress of Stixwold. King and council. Prioress of Stixwold The prioress requests... dating from [c. 1307-c. 1333] 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 8/73/3612
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1307-c. 1333]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prioress of Stixwold.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prioress of Stixwold
- Nature of request
- The prioress requests grace and remedy be done to them as they hold all their lands and tenements in Stixwould, Honington and Bassingthorpe by charter of Countess Lucy and by the confirmation of Ranulf her son and heir in free alms and the bailiffs of the king of the fee of the earldom of Chester in Lincolnshire distrain them to homage against reason and against their charters.
- Nature of endorsement
- She should have a writ in Chancery containing the effect of the petition to the bailiffs that they should not distrain the prioress against the form of the feoffment.
- Places mentioned
- Stixwould, Lincolnshire
- Hundynton (Honington), Lincolnshire
- Thorpe (Bassingthorpe), Lincolnshire.
- People mentioned
- Lucy, Countess of Chester
- Ranulf [Gernons, Earl of Chester], son and heir of Countess Lucy
- Bailiffs of the earl of Chester in Lincolnshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition seems to have been made at a time when the earldom of Chester was in the hands of the king; this, combine with the evidence of the hand, would seem to fix it as either 1307-12 or 1327-33. The dating assigned here allows both possibilities.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a memorandum of the terms of the original charter, and others, see C 270/30/32
For a related petition see SC 8/130/6451
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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 7331
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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/C9107386/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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