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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Jonet Gower, wife of Thomas Gower. Gower Jonet Lords of the present parliament. Gower...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/114/5700
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This record is about the Jonet Gower, wife of Thomas Gower. Gower Jonet Lords of the present parliament. Gower... dating from [? 1421] 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 8/114/5700
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1421]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Jonet Gower, wife of Thomas Gower.
- Name(s)
- Gower, Jonet
- Addressees
- Lords of the present parliament.
- Nature of request
- Gower requests that the lords ordain in parliament that she can have a writ to the sheriff of Yorkshire to make proclamation that Malmerer to deliver the beasts that he with many malefactors took from her late husband and still hold, and if he will not deliver them within 14 days, then he should appear before the justices of King's Bench to answer why he should not deliver them, and the justices have power to hear the plea.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Arncliffe, [West Riding of] Yorkshire.
- People mentioned
- Thomas Gower, late husband of the petitioner
- Robert Malmerer of York, esquire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1421 on the basis of the guard reference.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.26 of PRO 31/7/114
For a related petition see SC 8/144/7170
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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 3871
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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/C9150373/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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