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Agnes de Walthton (Walton), widow of John de Walton. de Walthton (Walton) Agnes King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/152/7560

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Reference
SC 8/152/7560
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
Agnes de Walthton (Walton), widow of John de Walton.
Name(s)
de Walthton (Walton), Agnes
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Walthton requests that she be granted her sustenance in the house of St Mary Magdalene, Ripon for the long service that her husband did, he being beheaded at the fall of Berwick.1)
Nature of endorsement
Let it be done.2) Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France]
Wales
Scotland
Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
Ripon, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
John de Walthton (Walton), late husband of the petitioner.
Note
The petition dates to 1320 as the archbishop of York was commanded to admit her to the hospital on 3 December 1320 (CCR 1318-23, p.349).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/319/E362

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, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.349 (request to the archbishop of York to admit the petitioner to the hospital)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209747/

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