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Robert Broun (Brown) of Warwick. Broun (Brown) Robert King and council in the present...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/94/4691

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Reference
SC 8/94/4691
Date
[1378]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Broun (Brown) of Warwick.
Name(s)
Broun (Brown), Robert
Addressees
King and council in the present parliament.
Nature of request
Brom requests right and reason be done to him as he was granted the manor of Farndon by Perrers for his long service to her, but was ousted by Spencer who alleged that the manor pertained to Perrers. As no office was found for the king he was granted a scire facias to warn Spencer to speak for the king or himself, but the Chancellor does not wish to act and instructed him to petition the council.
Nature of endorsement
[In an early modern hand] Petitiones parliamenti anno 2 Ricardi 2.
Places mentioned
Warwick, [Warwickshire]
Compton Maidak (Compton Verney), Warwickshire
West Farndon, Northamptonshire.
People mentioned
Alice Perrers
John Spencer.
Note
The post-medieval annotation on the dorse of the petition indicates that it and other petitions formerly comprised a file later dated to the parliament of October 1378. See also the similar annotation on the dorse of SC 8/148/7363.
Related material

For transcript, see no.109 of PRO 31/7/106

For a list of triers of petitions that may well have accompanied this petition see SC 8/94/4692

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 833
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.503-4 (grant in fee simple to William Windsor, married to Alice Perrers, of the lands she acquired when she was single including both manors included in this petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149242/

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