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Alice Douding (Dowding) of Winchester. Douding (Dowding) Alice Earl of Cambridge....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/107/5304

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This record is about the Alice Douding (Dowding) of Winchester. Douding (Dowding) Alice Earl of Cambridge.... dating from [? 1394-? 1399] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/107/5304
Date
[? 1394-? 1399]
Description
Petitioners
Alice Douding (Dowding) of Winchester.
Name(s)
Douding (Dowding), Alice
Addressees
Earl of Cambridge.
Nature of request
The petitioner requests aid as she has been long delayed from her inheritance, and she had a writ of entry but has been delayed further by the malice of Ednesore's who has attempted to challenge and block her from her inheritance in the city of Winchester.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Winchester, [Hampshire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
[Edmund of Langley], Earl of Cambridge
John Ednesore, clerk.
Note
The unusual address to the earl of Cambridge suggests that the petition may date from one of the two regencies of Edmund of Langley, duke of York and earl of Cambridge, in 1394-5 and 1399.
Related material

For transcript, see no.47 of PRO 31/7/110

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2764
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149874/

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