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Elizabeth Comyn, Countess of Angus. Comyn, Countess of Angus Elizabeth King. The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/90/4463
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This record is about the Elizabeth Comyn, Countess of Angus. Comyn, Countess of Angus Elizabeth King. The... dating from [c. 1323] 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 8/90/4463
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1323]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Elizabeth Comyn, Countess of Angus.
- Name(s)
- Comyn, Countess of Angus, Elizabeth
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The countess requests that she can take the £50 that were granted to her annually from Barnard Castle and which are in arrears from the customs of Newcastle and Hartlepool, and that she can be pardoned for victuals bought at Newcastle. She has nothing to live on as her lands in Northumberland are destroyed and her tenants killed, and she has no lands elsewhere.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram domino rege.2) She should show what she has of the £50 before the chancellor, and the king is to be certified.
- Places mentioned
- Northumberland
- Barnard Castle, [County Durham]
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- Hartlepool, [County Durham].
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition on the same matter see SC 8/218/10872
For a view of the account of the keeper of Barnard Castle recording payment of the sum to the petitioner see m.123 in E 159/96
For transcript, see no.4 of PRO 31/7/97
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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 277
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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)
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- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), p.189 (no.164) (calendar of petition)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.10 (grant that the annuity can be taken from certain vills in Co. Durham)
- Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. III, 1307-1357, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), pp.151-2 (no.819) (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149008/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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