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Joan de Felton, widow of Thomas de Felton. de Felton Joan Council in parliament....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/85/4215

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Reference
SC 8/85/4215
Date
[1381]
Description
Petitioners
Joan de Felton, widow of Thomas de Felton.
Name(s)
de Felton, Joan
Addressees
Council in parliament.
Nature of request
Joan, widow of Thomas de Felton, states that several manors belonging to her have been seized into the King's hand because of certain loans received by her husband on 2 August in the forty-eighth year of the reign of the King's grandfather, which have not yet been accounted for. She claims that some of these manors are held jointly with her in various ways, and that her jointure in the others began after any receipts for these loans; and she has long sued to have delivery of them, but with no success. She asks the King and council [sic] to grant her a writ to the Barons of the Exchequer, ordering them that if they can find by charters and other evidence that she can show them, or by inquisition, that she has joint estate as she claims, that they are to do justice to her, and to receive her to account for the loans and receipts received by her late husband and not accounted for before her jointure, notwithstanding that her husband's executors have not yet accounted for the loans and receipts.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Kirton in Lindsey, [Lincolnshire]
Fordham, [Cambridgeshire]
Aslackby, [Lincolnshire]
Wilby, [Norfolk]
Banham, [Norfolk]
Wilby, [Norfolk]
Barrow, [Suffolk]
Great Ryburgh, [Norfolk]
Little Ryburgh, [Norfolk]
Gilham (Jelham) Hall in Dersingham, [Norfolk]
Dersingham, [Norfolk]
Ingoldisthorpe, [Norfolk].
People mentioned
Thomas de Felton, husband of petitioner.
Note
CCR 1381-5 p.30 is dated 26 January 1382 and p.33 is dated 20 December 1381, and these are clearly in response to this petition.
Related material

An alternative version of this petition, addressed to the King and council, is SC 8/111/5517

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3552
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1920), p.30 (order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer that, if they can find that the petitioner was jointly seised of these manors with her husband as she claims, they are to remove the King's hand from them) & p.33 (another similar order)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148757/

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