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Thomas Holand, Earl of Kent and Lord of Wake. Holand, Earl of Kent and Lord of Wake...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/116/5762

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Reference
SC 8/116/5762
Date
[c. 1391]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Holand, Earl of Kent and Lord of Wake.
Name(s)
Holand, Earl of Kent and Lord of Wake, Thomas
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Earl of Kent makes three requests.1) He seeks remedy over land adjudged to be in Holland by Willoughby's recent investigation and claimed by John of Gaunt, but which formed part of his manors of Deeping and Bourne.2) He seeks remedy against the Abbot of Crowland, citing various actions against him and his tenants and servants by the Abbot and his servants.3) He seeks remedy against the Prior of Spalding, again citing various actions against him and his servants.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Holland, [Lincolnshire]
Kesteven, [Lincolnshire]
Deeping, [Lincolnshire]
Bourne, [Lincolnshire]
New Dyke [unidentified], [Lincolnshire]
River Welland, [Lincolnshire]
Stonehurne [unidentified], [Lincolnshire]
Wodelode [unidentified], [Lincolnshire]
Crowland, [Lincolnshire]
Spalding, [Lincolnshire]
Pinchbeck, [Lincolnshire]
Sterfenne [unidentified], [Lincolnshire]
Harwardlode [unidentified], [Lincolnshire]
Bourne North Fen, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
[Robert de Willoughby], Lord Willoughby
[John of Gaunt], Lord of Guyenne
[John de Ashby], Abbot of Croyland (Crowland)
[Joan of Kent], Princess of Wales and Lady of Wake
William de la March (Marsh)
Simon Geldeheude
John Warenner, minister of the Earl of Kent
Prior of Spalding.
Note
The commission mentioned was issued on 1 March 1390. The petition probably dates from the following year or soon afterwards, and forms part of a long-running dispute between the Earl of Kent and the Abbot of Crowland and Prior of Spalding.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/102/5054

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4179
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.219 (commission to Robert de Willoughby and others to enquire into a common petition regarding disputes over the boundary between Holland and Kesteven)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150436/

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