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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 [John of Gaunt], King...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/147/7347
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/147/7347
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1382]
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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
- [John of Gaunt], King of Castile and Leon & Duke of Lancaster.
- Nature of request
- Thomas West and Alice his wife state that on the Sunday after the feast of the Translation of St Thomas last, Nicholas de Clyfton persuaded Alice West, her son and daughter and others of her household to ride out into the New Forest with him, and there he ambushed them with armed men, attacked them, and ravished their daughter Eleanor; because of which attack Alice is ill and likely to die. They request a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- France
- Brittany
- Testwood, Hampshire
- New Forest, [Hampshire].
- People mentioned
- [John of Gaunt], Duke of Lancaster
- Nicholas de Clyfton (Clifton)
- Thomas [West], son of Thomas and Alice West
- Eleanor [West], daughter of Thomas and Alice West.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- As SC 8/146/7252 says this petition was presented to the parliament held at Westminster on the Monday after Michaelmas (that of October 1382).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a later related petition from the same petitioners, see SC 8/146/7252
For transcript, see no.33 of PRO 31/7/109
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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)
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- Sir Thomas West and the Statute of Rapes, 1382, J.B. Post, (Bulletin of the Institute of Historical , 1980), pp.25-6 (translation and discussion of petition)
- The King's Council in England during the Middle Ages, J.F. Baldwin, (, 1913), p.331 (transcript of clause of address)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209531/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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