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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Alice Justice, daughter and heir of William Justice. Justice Alice King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/80/3972
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This record is about the Alice Justice, daughter and heir of William Justice. Justice Alice King and council.... dating from [c. 1327] 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 8/80/3972
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Alice Justice, daughter and heir of William Justice.
- Name(s)
- Justice, Alice
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Justice requests that she can be delivered of her messuage and land in Kersey which Wayland entered after her father's death and then granted to Despenser. She requested the return of the messuage from Despenser but he declined. The messuage is now in the king's hand.
- Nature of endorsement
- Certain people should be assigned in Chancery to enquire, in the presence of the keepers of the lands referred to in the petition, of the veracity of the contents of the petition and all other things touching this matter. The inquisition should be returned into Chancery and shown to the king.
- Places mentioned
- Kersey, Suffolk.
- People mentioned
- William Justice, father of the petitioner
- Edmund [de Weylond (Wayland)], son of Richard de Weylond
- Richard de Weylond
- Hugh le Despenser the son.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is likely to date to c. 1327 as it complains of the younger Despenser, and such complaints were unlikely to be made until after the fall of the Despensers in late 1326.
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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 4496
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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/C9107748/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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