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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas de Cornwall. de Cornwall Thomas King and Council. The petitioner seeks justice...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/101/5039
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This record is about the Thomas de Cornwall. de Cornwall Thomas King and Council. The petitioner seeks justice... dating from [1379-1384] 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 8/101/5039
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1379-1384]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas de Cornwall.
- Name(s)
- de Cornwall, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks justice and damages against John Brette and Alice Perrers. He states that Brette was bound to him by statute merchant in £65 8s and by various other bonds in £25, for which he granted the petitioner eight messuages, six bovates of land and forty acres of pasture with appurtenances in Burton Overy, to hold for his lifetime. Brett, by the support of Alice Perrers (now the wife of William Windsor), entered into these lands and enfeoffed various unknown persons to the use of the said Alice, who now holds and wrongly takes the profits to the petitioner's damage of 100 marks.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Burton Overy, [Leicestershire].
- People mentioned
- John Brette
- Alice Perrers
- William Windsor.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable from internal evidence between the revelation of Alice Perrers' marriage to William Windsor in the parliament of 1379 and the death of Windsor in 1384.
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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 1931
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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/C9149607/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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