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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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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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This record is about the Blanche Wake, wife of Lord Wake. Wake Blanche King and council. Blanche Wake, kinswoman... dating from [? 1320] 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 8/87/4346
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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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 8694
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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/C9148888/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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