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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 (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/107/5316
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1383-c. 1384]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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
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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 2781
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149886/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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