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Elizabeth de Mountagu (Montagu), widow of William de Mountagu, Earl of Salisbury....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/128/6374
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/128/6374
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1399]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Elizabeth de Mountagu (Montagu), widow of William de Mountagu, Earl of Salisbury.
- Name(s)
- de Mountagu (Montagu), Elizabeth
- Addressees
- King and Council in Parliament.
- Nature of request
- Elizabeth, widow of William Mountagu, Earl of Salisbury, requests the restoration to her of various lands, castles and offices in Cheshire and the Welsh Marches, which she held jointly with her late husband. She states that she retained these after William's death, but was then ousted without due process by Richard II following inquisitions and commissions brought by John, the present Earl. She asks for their return, and for various manors of her former husband in Hampshire to be granted to her until full restoration is completed.
- Nature of endorsement
- The King wishes that livery be granted to her, with all issues since the time she was ousted. Let inquests be held by authority of the Prince for lands in the principality, and the value of the jointure certified to the King, and she shall have the necessary letters to the Prince. Let commissions be issued for lands in all areas where the King's writ runs, and another to enquire into the value of the Hampshire lands, which will then be granted to the petitioner until the issues from the jointure are levied.
- Places mentioned
- Hawarden, [Flintshire, Wales]
- Chester, [Cheshire]
- Bosley, Cheshire
- Neston, Cheshire
- Mohaut (Mold), [Flintshire, Wales]
- Wales
- Cheshire
- Shropshire
- Tatton, [Cheshire]
- Christchurch Twynham (Christchurch), Hampshire
- Ringwood, Hampshire
- Swainstone, Hampshire
- Brighstone, Hampshire.
- People mentioned
- William de Mountagu, Earl of Salisbury
- Walter Clopton
- Richard Horne
- Thomas [Strete]
- Richard II, King of England
- John Massey of Tatton, knight
- John Mountagu (Montagu), Earl of Salisbury
- [Henry of Monmouth], Prince [of Wales].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- From the references to Richard II as the former King, and the commissions issued on 6 November 1399, clearly this was presented to the parliament of autumn 1399, the first of Henry IV's reign.
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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 5926
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.214-16 (partial summary of petition with references, mis-dated and with numerous errors)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. I, 1399-1401, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.124 (resultant commissions regarding the two groups of lands)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208552/
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