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Blanche Wake, wife of Lord Wake. Wake Blanche King and council. Blanche Wake, kinswoman...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/87/4346

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Reference
SC 8/87/4346
Date
[? 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Blanche Wake, wife of Lord Wake.
Name(s)
Wake, Blanche
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Blanche Wake, kinswoman of the King and wife of Lord Wake, states that her husband is on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and her parents are overseas, so that she is alone, and that one of her husband's manors has been attacked by people from Spalding, who have killed and badly wounded the people of her husband's household and her own, and carried off their goods and chattels and also the dead bodies, so that she and her ladies are afraid to live there. She requests that suitable justices might be given an oyer et terminer on this matter.
Nature of endorsement
The lady who demands cannot have an action in the case shown in this petition.
Places mentioned
Santiago de Compostela, [Spain]
Spalding, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
[Thomas Wake], Lord Wake, husband of petitioner
Henry de Lancaster, father of petitioner.
Note
A note at the start of this file, dated 3 May 1932, states that 'The petitions in this file are copied in R. C. Transcripts I. 156, and appear to form part of an original file of petitions to the parliament of Michaelmas 1320. Cf. Parl. Proc. (Chancery) 5/4'. C 49/5/4 is merely a label, 'The petitions of William de Herlaston from the King's parliament held at Westminster at the octave of Michaelmas in his fourteenth year, which were answered by the auditors of petitions, delivered into Chancery to be expedited': nevertheless, this petition is tentatively dated to 1320, as many of those in the file that can be dated seem to come from that year.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8694
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148888/

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