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Joan de Brightmerston (Brigmerston), widow of Steven de Brigmerston. de Brightmerston...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/82/4064
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This record is about the Joan de Brightmerston (Brigmerston), widow of Steven de Brigmerston. de Brightmerston... dating from [1315] 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 8/82/4064
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1315]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan de Brightmerston (Brigmerston), widow of Steven de Brigmerston.
- Name(s)
- de Brightmerston (Brigmerston), Joan
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Brightmerston requests remedy as her husband was arraigned of certain robberies and felonies, and died without being attainted, and his goods and chattels were seized into the king's hand and were delivered to Ward, Kydewyne and Lilbon. She further requests livery of the chattels by mainprise, and that she be able to be adjudged in parliament.
- Nature of endorsement
- She should sue to bring the record of the business before the justices upon the contents in the petition residing in Chancery, and the chancellor should call those from his council whom he wishes to call, and he should make enquiry upon the contents and do full justice.
- Places mentioned
- Wiltshire.
- People mentioned
- Steven de Brightmerston (Brigmerston), husband of the petitioner
- Robert Fitz Payn, Justice in trailbaston in Wiltshire
- Sheriff of Wiltshire
- John de Holte (Holt)
- William Ward
- John Kydewyne
- William Lilbon.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/36/1776
For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/91/4524
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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 915
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.182 (order to the sheriffs of Wiltshire and Hampshire and others to deliver the goods and chattels of Brightmerston to his widow as she has found sufficient mainprise) & p.187 (order to the sheriffs of Wiltshire and Hampshire to enquire of the goods and chattels of Brightmerston as his widow had complained that she had only received a fraction of them) & p.362 (order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to deliver the goods and chattels, the sheriffs having not acted)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148604/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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