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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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Thomas West and Alice West his wife. West; West Thomas; Alice King and lords of parliament....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/146/7252
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This record is about the Thomas West and Alice West his wife. West; West Thomas; Alice King and lords of parliament.... dating from [1383] 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 8/146/7252
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1383]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas West and Alice West his wife.
- Name(s)
- West; West, Thomas; Alice
- Addressees
- King and lords of parliament.
- Nature of request
- Thomas West and Alice his wife, state that at the last parliament held at Westminster on the Monday after last Michaelmas, they complained that Nicholas de Clifton assaulted Alice at Malwood in the New Forest, and feloniously ravished their daughter Eleanor, and because of their suit a statute was made to punish such rapes in future. They ask that the punishments included in that statute might be applied to Nicholas and Eleanor.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Malwood, [Hampshire]
- New Forest, [Hampshire].
- People mentioned
- Nicholas de Clifton
- Eleanor [West], daughter of Thomas and Alice West.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Presented to the parliament after the one held at Westminster on the Monday after Michaelmas (that of October 1382), and so datable to the parliament of February 1383.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.61 of PRO 31/7/107
For the earlier petition mentioned here, see SC 8/147/7347
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- Sir Thomas West and the Statute of Rapes, 1382, J.B. Post, (Bulletin of the Institute of Historical , 1980), p.27 (translation and discussion of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209435/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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