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Emma de Kent, widow of John de Kent. de Kent Emma King and council. Kent requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5956
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This record is about the Emma de Kent, widow of John de Kent. de Kent Emma King and council. Kent requests... dating from [1295-1316] 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 8/120/5956
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1295-1316]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Emma de Kent, widow of John de Kent.
- Name(s)
- de Kent, Emma
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Kent requests that the record and process concerning the feoffment of the manor of Dysart be examined. Pypard enfeoffed her and her late husband of the manor, but while her husband was in prison in Oxford he sued a writ of quare cessavit per biennium and recovered the manor though the petitioner was not named in the writ, and he before she could challenge it he enfeoffed the king with the manor. She has petitioned before for recovery but because the manor is in the king's hand the justices would not act.
- Nature of endorsement
- [Illegible order to Roger le Brabazon and his fellows.]
- Places mentioned
- Dysart, [County Westmeath, Ireland]
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
- Drogheda, [Ireland].
- People mentioned
- John de Kent, late husband of the petitioner
- Ralph de Pypard (Pippard)
- Walter Lenfaunt, justice in eyre in Drogheda
- Roger le Brabazon, justice.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable by the term of office of Roger Brabazon as chief justice of King's Bench.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related copy of a charter, see SC 8/324/E633E
For a petition by the petitioner's husband on the same matter, see SC 8/55/2701
For copies of related documents and legal process formerly appended to SC 8/55/2705A see SC 8/55/2705B
For an earlier petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/55/2705A
For another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter, see SC 8/324/E633D
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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 4698
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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/C9150649/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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