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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Anneys de Slikburn, widow of Alan de Slikburn. de Slikburn Anneys King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/74/3693
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This record is about the Anneys de Slikburn, widow of Alan de Slikburn. de Slikburn Anneys King and council.... dating from [? 1334] 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 8/74/3693
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Anneys de Slikburn, widow of Alan de Slikburn.
- Name(s)
- de Slikburn, Anneys
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Slikburn requests that the bishop be ordered to the bishop of Durham that he do justice to her by which she is able to receive her land in Cornforth in which she was jointly enfeoffed with her husband. Her husband alienated the land in fee, but the bishop is not able to grant certain writs by which Slikburn will be disinherited.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered to the bishop by a writ that he do justice according to the usages of those parts.
- Places mentioned
- Cornforth, [County Durham]
- Liberty of Durham.
- People mentioned
- Alan de Slikburn, late husband of the petitioner
- Bishop of Durham.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition has been very tentatively dated to 1334 on the basis of Constance Fraser's association of this petition with others on a similar matter (See the associated petitions both here and in Fraser, Northern Petitions, no.171, p.233-4).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/44/2165
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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 7206
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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)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.233-4 (no.171) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107467/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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