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Elizabeth Despenser, widow of Edward Despenser. Despenser Elizabeth King. Despenser...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/107/5316

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This record is about the Elizabeth Despenser, widow of Edward Despenser. Despenser Elizabeth King. Despenser... dating from [c. 1383-c. 1384] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/107/5316
Date
[c. 1383-c. 1384]
Description
Petitioners
Elizabeth Despenser, widow of Edward Despenser.
Name(s)
Despenser, Elizabeth
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Despenser requests that the king will command the bishop of Worcester and abbot of Westminster to cease cutting wood in the chases of Malvern and Corse without licence and making their other grievances against her and against Thomas son and heir of her late husband, and that she is suffered to have her franchises and liberties of the chase. She states that she held dower there after the death of her husband but the bishop and abbot have woods there and cut them outrageously without her licence or view of her foresters to the destruction of the chase and the disinheritance of Thomas Despenser.
Nature of endorsement
Everything will be done on the coming of age of the heir.
Places mentioned
Corse, [Gloucestershire]
Malvern, [Worcestershire]
Winchester, [Hampshire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
Edward Despenser, late husband of the petitioner
Thomas [Despenser], son and heir of Edward Despenser
Bishop of Worcester
Abbot of Westminster.
Note
Datable to 1383-4 on the basis of the inclusion of the petition in Rot. Parl., vol. III, p. 178; a date in the 1380s is compatible with internal evidence.
Related material

For transcript, see no.49 of PRO 31/7/109

For a petition from the same petitioner concerning the chase of Corse, see SC 8/85/4205

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/106/5275

For a petition from the Abbot of Westminster concerning the chase of Corse, see SC 8/85/4206

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2781
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.178a-b (edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149886/

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