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Joan de Swymbourne (Swinburne), wife of Robert de Swymbourne. de Swymbourne (Swinburne)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/139/6947

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This record is about the Joan de Swymbourne (Swinburne), wife of Robert de Swymbourne. de Swymbourne (Swinburne)... dating from [1391] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/139/6947
Date
[1391]
Description
Petitioners
Joan de Swymbourne (Swinburne), wife of Robert de Swymbourne.
Name(s)
de Swymbourne (Swinburne), Joan
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
Request that Thomas Swymbourne be brought to peace with the petitioner in their dispute over lands of her late husband, to whom Thomas is the heir.
Nature of endorsement
Memorandum of proceedings in parliament on the case.
Places mentioned
Essex
Suffolk
[Norfolk]
Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire
Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Tower of London, [London].
People mentioned
John de Swymbourne (Swinburne)
John Doreward
Thomas Lampet
John de Boys
Clement Spice
Ralph Chambirleyn
John Sutton
Thomas Swymbourne (Swinburne), son of John de Swymbourne
[Edmund of Langley], Duke of York.
Note
Datable by reference to the outcome in CCR 1389-92, p.508.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), p.508 (mainprise for Thomas Swymbourne that he keep the peace against Joan)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209131/

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