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John Birche (Birch), carpenter. Birche (Birch) John Lords of parliament. carpenter...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/95/4741

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This record is about the John Birche (Birch), carpenter. Birche (Birch) John Lords of parliament. carpenter... dating from [1379-1384] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/95/4741
Date
[1379-1384]
Description
Petitioners
John Birche (Birch), carpenter.
Name(s)
Birche (Birch), John
Addressees
Lords of parliament.
Occupation
carpenter
Nature of request
John Birche, carpenter, requests payment of a sum of money due to him from when he worked as carpenter for Lady Alice de Wyndesore, both at her house in London and at Bourne Hall.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
London
Borenhall (Bourne Hall), [Hertfordshire].
People mentioned
Alice de Wyndesore (Windsor, Perrers).
Note
Petitions against Alice Perrers under her married name of Windsor were not generally made until after the admission of the marriage by William Windsor at the parliament of 1379; the absence of a reference to Alice as widow suggests that this petition was made between 1379 and Windsor's death in 1384.
Related material

For transcript, see no.1 of PRO 31/7/106

For another petition relating to Bourne Hall see SC 8/96/4751

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 939
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149301/

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