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Amice de Horton. de Horton Amice King. Amice de Horton requests that the king take...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/117/5816

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SC 8/117/5816
Date
[c. 1323]
Description
Petitioners
Amice de Horton.
Name(s)
de Horton, Amice
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Amice de Horton requests that the king take heed of the findings of the recent inquest and restore to her son certain lands formerly held by her husband Thomas, but now in the king's hands due to the forfeiture of the tenant, Thomas Colepeper.
Nature of endorsement
Let the inquisition be produced.Coram Rege.
Places mentioned
Leigh, [Kent]
Tonbridge, [Kent].
People mentioned
Steven de Penecestre
Thomas de Horton, late husband of the petitioner
Henry Wyth
Charles [de Horton], son of the petitioner
Thomas Colepeper (Culpeper, Culpepper)
Note
Appears to date from shortly after the inquisition into this matter held on 14 September 1323 (CIM 1307-49, no.644).
Related material

For the record of the inquisition mentioned in this petition, attached to a duplicate of this petition, see no.31 of C 145/91

For a related petition by Charles de Horton see SC 8/116/5785

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4320
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.644 (calendar of inquisition into this matter)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150492/

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