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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Alice de la Venele, formerly of Bury St Edmunds. Venele Alice King. Alice de la Venele...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/77/3820
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This record is about the Alice de la Venele, formerly of Bury St Edmunds. Venele Alice King. Alice de la Venele... dating from [c. 1288] 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 8/77/3820
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1288]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Alice de la Venele, formerly of Bury St Edmunds.
- Name(s)
- Venele, Alice
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Alice de la Venele states that when John de Norwyz, who was to have married her, purchased writs of Chancery against Nicholas Fuke, Bailiff of Bury St Edmunds, John de Hokewold, and others, for having expelled her from her free tenement in Bury St Edmunds, they had him imprisoned and falsely indicted of theft, and would have had him hanged if he had not been saved by clergy. As they were then plotting her death, she took herself to sanctuary. She was then badly counselled to abjure the land and seek the grace of the King in Gascony, so she sued to the King for two years there, but was told that she could have no remedy until the King's coming to England, and that he would have the matter inquired into by his ministers then. She requests an inquiry by good men of Norfolk and Suffolk; and, as she is in a foreign land, she asks the King to take matters into his hand and to give her a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- The King is to provide for the bailiwicks of the magnates.The King can do nothing for this, on account of the recognisance.
- Places mentioned
- Bury St Edmunds, [Suffolk]
- Gascony, [France]
- Blanquefort, [Guyenne, France]
- Norfolk
- Suffolk.
- People mentioned
- John de Norwyz (Norwich)
- Nicholas Fuke, Bailiff of Bury St Edmunds
- John de Hokewold.
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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 8243
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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/C9107594/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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