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? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ of Edward III to the escheator ordering him...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/74/3680

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ of Edward III to the escheator ordering him... dating from [c. 1336] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/74/3680
Date
[c. 1336]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of a writ of Edward III to the escheator ordering him to enquire into the matter of William and Agnes Shounyn's lease of land to Simon de Bereford, which land was taken into the king's hand because of Bereford's forfeiture.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Brentingby, [Leicestershire].
People mentioned
Edward III, King of England
Escheator
William Shounyn of Brentingby
Agnes [Shounyn], wife of William Shounyn
Simon de Bereford.
Related material

For the petition for which this writ was probably issued in execution see SC 8/296/14792

For the petition to which this copy of a writ was formerly attached see SC 8/74/3679

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7203
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.720-1 (order to the justices to proceed to judgment)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107454/

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