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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Richard Wydevill (Woodville). Wydevill (Woodville) Richard King and council. Richard...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/147/7350
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This record is about the Richard Wydevill (Woodville). Wydevill (Woodville) Richard King and council. Richard... dating from [1378] 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 8/147/7350
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1378]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard Wydevill (Woodville).
- Name(s)
- Wydevill (Woodville), Richard
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Richard Wydevill states that he had enfeoffed certain people with a house that he had in Northamptonshire, in order to re-enfeoff it according to his will, and that he was then wrongly imprisoned by the late King. While he was in prison Alice Perrers persuaded the feoffees to enfeoff certain people with the house, promising to use her influence with the King to have him released, and to do him other good; but when she had the house she did nothing, and he remained in prison until the King, learning the truth, released him. He asks that he might have the house back.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Windsor, [Berkshire]
- Northamptonshire.
- People mentioned
- [Edward III], King of England
- Alice Pererez (Perrers)
- John de Missenden, broker of Alice Perrers.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Like other petitions against Alice Perrers, this is datable to the parliament of October 1378 on the basis of annotations on SC 8/94/4691 and SC 8/148/7363, which refer specifically to petitions against Alice in that parliament.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.48 of PRO 31/7/106
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209534/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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