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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior of Monks Kirby. King and council. Prior of Monks Kirby [This petition is badly...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5962
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This record is about the Prior of Monks Kirby. King and council. Prior of Monks Kirby [This petition is badly... dating from [1322-1326] 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 8/120/5962
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1322-1326]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior of Monks Kirby.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prior of Monks Kirby
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly faded]The Prior requests remedy concerning property granted to his house by John de Mowbray and his ancestors, which is now being claimed by the officials of those to whom the Mowbray estates were granted following John's forfeiture.
- Nature of endorsement
- [Faded and illegible]
- Places mentioned
- Kirkeby (Monks Kirby), [Warwickshire]
- Isle of Axholme, [Lincolnshire]
- Melton Mowbray, [Leicestershire]
- People mentioned
- [Edmund Fitz Alan], Earl of Arundel
- Hugh le Despenser, the son
- Eleanor [le Despenser], wife of Hugh le Despenser
- Gilbert [le Despenser], son of Hugh le Despenser.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Clearly dates to some point between the execution of Mowbray in 1322 and the fall of Despenser in 1326. Dated on the guard to? c. 1324, but no evidence cited.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.7 of PRO 31/7/98
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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 4716
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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/C9150655/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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