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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William de Coventre (Coventry). de Coventre (Coventry) William King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/97/4836
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This record is about the William de Coventre (Coventry). de Coventre (Coventry) William King and council.... dating from [c. 1300-c. 1325] 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 8/97/4836
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1300-c. 1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Coventre (Coventry).
- Name(s)
- de Coventre (Coventry), William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- William de Coventre states on behalf of the King that certain lands and tenements in Winchelsea and Iham marsh were escheated to the King by bastardy after the death of John de Rakle, who died without an heir of his body, but that Robert Paulyn, Bailiff of Winchelsea, who ought to have seized the tenements for the King's use, procured to have the tenements delivered to Walter, son of Geoffrey de Rakle of Burwash, and then acquired some of them for himself. He requests a suitable remedy for the King's benefit.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] John Jacob of Winchelsea entered after the death of the said John into three acres of land as an escheat.[On dorse] The Escheator or the Keeper of the Cinq Ports is to be ordered to inquire into the contents of the petition and to inform the King.
- Places mentioned
- Winchelsea, [Sussex]
- Yhamme (Iham, Higham) marsh, [Sussex]
- Burwash, [Sussex].
- People mentioned
- John de Rakle, son of John de Rakle
- John de Rakle
- Robert Paulyn, Bailiff of Winchelsea
- Walter [de Rakle], son of Geoffrey de Rakle of Burwash
- Geoffrey de Rakle of Burwash
- John Jacob of Winchelsea.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- No firm date has been established for this petition and it is assigned impressionistically, on the basis of the hand, to the first quarter of the fourteenth century.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/3/131
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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 1333
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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/C9149403/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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