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Margaret Brokehous, tenant of Sheen Priory. Brokehous Margaret Council. Brokehous...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/164/8188
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This record is about the Margaret Brokehous, tenant of Sheen Priory. Brokehous Margaret Council. Brokehous... dating from [c. 1400-c. 1450] 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 8/164/8188
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1400-c. 1450]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Margaret Brokehous, tenant of Sheen Priory.
- Name(s)
- Brokehous, Margaret
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- Brokehous requests remedy against Wolrigge, King, Floyde, Yarkhill and Hopton who have vexed and wronged her grievously in the hundred of Radlow by various inquests, empanelled and contrived at their election in foreign hundreds, by which she has sustained great loss and damage of her goods and chattels to the value of 100s., and who also threatened her life and limbs so that she would not come near their house in the hundred of Broxash, as is well known to Merbury and others, and whom she has sued by various writs delivered to the sheriff of the county.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None.]
- Places mentioned
- Sheen (Richmond), [Surrey]
- Radlow hundred, Herefordshire
- Leadon, Herefordshire
- Bromyard, Herefordshire
- March of Wales
- Worcestershire
- Bishop's Frome, Herefordshire
- Broxash, Herefordshire.
- People mentioned
- William Wolrigge, bailiff of the hundred of Radlowe
- Simon Kynge (King) of Leadon
- Richard Floyde, clerk of Bromyard
- Thomas Yerkhill (Yarkhill) of Worcestershire
- John Hopton of Bishop's Frome
- John Merbury.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- No firm context has been established for this petition, which, on the basis of the hand and form, is assigned to the first half of the fifteenth century.
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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/C9294033/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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