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Cecilia de Muscegros, widow of John de Muscegros. de Muscegros Cecilia King. Cecilia...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/126/6281

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Reference
SC 8/126/6281
Date
[1275-1290]
Description
Petitioners
Cecilia de Muscegros, widow of John de Muscegros.
Name(s)
de Muscegros, Cecilia
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Cecilia de Muscegros seeks remedy regarding two distraints made against her in Alvescot by the sheriff of Oxfordshire, concerning debts owed by others.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Oxfordshire
Alvescot, [Oxfordshire].
People mentioned
John de Muscegros, late husband of the petitioner
Sheriff of Oxfordshire
Thomas de Clare
Eleanor [of Castile], Queen of England
Henry de la Mare
Jacob of Oxford, Jew.
Note
The petition presumably dates to some point between the death of John de Muscegros in 1275 and the death of Eleanor of Castile and the expulsion of the Jews in 1290.
Related material

For transcript, see p.49 of PRO 31/7/92

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5701
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208456/

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