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Elizabeth le Despenser, widow of Lord le Despenser. Despenser Elizabeth King and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/85/4205

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Reference
SC 8/85/4205
Date
[1377-1386]
Description
Petitioners
Elizabeth le Despenser, widow of Lord le Despenser.
Name(s)
Despenser, Elizabeth
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Elizabeth, widow of Lord le Despenser, states that her late husband and his ancestors have from time immemorial had a chase at Corse in Gloucestershire, so that no-one who had a wood there had the right to hunt, or to cut down and sell wood, without their permission, the Abbot of Westminster is now claiming the right to do so. She asks the king and council to maintain the right of the heir, currently in the king's wardship, and requests that no determination should be had on any bill touching the chase, which might be delivered into parliament by the Abbot, before consulting the king.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Corse, Gloucestershire
Westminster.
People mentioned
[Edward le Despenser], Lord le Despenser
[Nicholas Litlyngtone], Abbot of Westminster
[Thomas le Despenser], heir of Lord le Despenser.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1377-86, with reference to the minority of Thomas, Lord Despenser (Edward le Despenser died in 1375, but see CFR 1377-83 p.46, for the commitment to the petitioner of her late husband's lands and tenements during the heir's minority, dated 12 December 1377), and to the death of Nicholas Litlyngtone, Abbot of Westminster (see SC 8/85/4206, and also CPR 1385-9 p.245, dated 12 December 1386, for permission to the prior and convent of Westminster to elect a new abbot after his death). Further dated to '? 1385', with reference to SC 8/85/4206, SC 8/106/5275, and SC 8/107/5316, which last can be dated to 1383-4.
Related material

For a related petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/158/7884

For a petition on the same subject from the Abbot of Westminster, see SC 8/85/4206

For a related petition see SC 8/106/5275

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2880
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148747/

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