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Elizabeth Beaumont, widow of Henry Beaumont, kt. Beaumont Elizabeth King and the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/92/4558

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Reference
SC 8/92/4558
Date
[1424]
Description
Petitioners
Elizabeth Beaumont, widow of Henry Beaumont, kt.
Name(s)
Beaumont, Elizabeth
Addressees
King and the other lords, spiritual and temporal, of this present parliament.
Nature of request
Beaumont requests writs to the escheators of Hampshire and Lincoln to deliver to her reasonable dower in the certain messuages, lands and tenements in Alton and in Lincoln in which she has not received her dower, her late husband's estates being in the king's hand by the heirs minority.
Nature of endorsement
[On face].. . . of February.[On dorse].Let it be done as it is desired by the petition.
Places mentioned
Alton, [Hampshire]
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
Henry Beaumont, knight, late husband of the petitioner
John [Beaumont], son and heir of Henry Beaumont
William Werbleton (Warblington), escheator of Hampshire.
Note
The petition dates to 1423 as an order to the escheators of Hampshire and Lincolnshire to deliver dower was made on 5 February 1424 (CCR 1422-9, p.99).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 545
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429, (Public Record Office, 1933), p.99 (order to the escheators of Hampshire and Lincolnshire to give livery of dower)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149105/

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