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Agnes de Morhalle (la More), widow of John de Morhalle. de Morhalle (la More) Agnes...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/129/6426
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This record is about the Agnes de Morhalle (la More), widow of John de Morhalle. de Morhalle (la More) Agnes... dating from [c. 1389] 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 8/129/6426
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1389]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Agnes de Morhalle (la More), widow of John de Morhalle.
- Name(s)
- de Morhalle (la More), Agnes
- Addressees
- King and Council of Parliament.
- Nature of request
- Agnes de Morhalle requests remedy against Thomas de Morhalle and his companions, who have attacked her, taken her lands and stolen her goods. She states that these lands had been enfeoffed to her and her husband for life, with remainders to Thomas de Morhalle and others, but that Thomas has violently taken the lands and goods, despite letters of protection she received from the king, and although she sued a writ against him and he was taken into prison, he has now been released.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Morhalle (Moor Hall in Wixford), Warwickshire
- Temple Grafton, Warwickshire
- Cokton (Coughton), Warwickshire
- Ekleshale (Exhall by Alcester), Warwickshire
- Gloucester, [Gloucestershire]
- Warwick, [Warwickshire].
- People mentioned
- John de Morhalle (la More), late husband of the petitioner
- Robert Daunser (Dansere), parson of Exhall
- Richard de Wellenford the younger
- John Poywyk
- Thomas [de Morhalle (la More)], son of John de Morhalle
- John de Clopton, cousin of John de Morhalle
- William de Spernore
- Guy de Spene (Spine, Spyne)
- Peter Holte
- Roger de Aylesbury
- John de Acton
- Earl of Stafford.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in error on the guard to? 1378-9. John de Morhalle was still alive in 1376 (CIPM XIV, no.250), and in 1381-2, although he had died by 1389, in which year Agnes made a fine regarding her own inheritance. The history of this family is given in G.T.O. Bridgeman, 'Some Account of the families of Beysin, Morehall and Clopton', Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. I (1878), pp.281-310, although the latter part of the article (possibly mistakenly) discounts the terms of the entail mentioned here, which he dates (with reference to Dugdale) to 1378-9. A date around 1389 for this petition would appear likely. John de Clopton was the husband of Agnes and John's only daughter, to whom Agnes' own inheritance certainly passed.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition from this petitioner on this matter see SC 8/222/11100
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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 6057
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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/C9208605/
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