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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William Drury of Suffolk, esquire. Drury William King and Parliament. The petitioner...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/105/5238
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/105/5238
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1431-c. 1433]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Drury of Suffolk, esquire.
- Name(s)
- Drury, William
- Addressees
- King and Parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks the recovery of a moiety of the manor of Cowlinge in Suffolk, worth 20 marks each year without wardship and marriage etc. He states that the Lady Margery, widow of George de Felbrigg, was seised of the moiety for life, with remainder to Margery, daughter of Thomas Naunton ... and the heirs of their bodies, which Margery had issue (the petitioner), and [Margery] died ... with remainder to the petitioner as her son and heir, as shown by final agreement in the king's court. Margery died ... more than two and a half years before this petition passed, at which time Wodehouse was chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, who ordered Sheppeley and other officers ... Cowlinge was held of the king through the duchy by knight's service, for which the petitioner by the advice of his council ... petitioned Wodehouse for recovery of the said manor as right heir ... entered in the time of Edward II, just as the petitioner has shown to the council by fine of record held by Eble Lestraunge and Alice his wife ... and also by an indentured final agreement made in the time of Edward III that proves that the manor was held by John Shardelow of Lady Alice, Countess of Lincoln, by knight's service etc. Thus the manor was held of the king of the duchy of Lancaster, and the council granted livery to the petitioner. Wodehouse would not grant the same without the king's order.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Suffolk
- Cowlinge, [Suffolk].
- People mentioned
- George de Felbrigg
- Margery, widow of George de Felbrigg
- Margery [Naunton], daughter and heiress of Thomas Naunton, mother of William Drury
- John Wodehouse, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- John Sheppeley, bailiff of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Edward II, King of England
- Eble Lestraunge
- Alice [Lestraunge], Countess of Lincoln
- Edward III, King of England
- John Shardelow, knight.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A note on the guard suggests? 1421, but the reference in the petition to John Wodehouse as formerly chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster must place it in or after 1431, and the lapse of two and a half years makes the plausible date range 1431-3.
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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 2662
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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/C9149808/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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