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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Margery Felbrigg, widow and co-executrix of George Felbrigg. Felbrigg Margery Council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/166/8291
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This record is about the Margery Felbrigg, widow and co-executrix of George Felbrigg. Felbrigg Margery Council.... dating from [? 1401] 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 8/166/8291
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1401]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Margery Felbrigg, widow and co-executrix of George Felbrigg.
- Name(s)
- Felbrigg, Margery
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- Margery Felbrigg states that Richard II granted by his letters patent to her late husband £40 yearly from the farms and issues of the city of Norwich ... and Richard II had ... in maintenance of his estate ... of the issues and profits of the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk by the hands of their sheriff ... granted ... yearly for the term of his life from the issues of the lordship of ... which were given and granted by the King ... ratified and confirmed and that her husband was alive after Easter ... the said George in a writ and the petitioner was not paid after his death from the annuity ... part of the same. The petitioner requests that ... warrant be made by writs of the council to the former bailiffs of Norwich and Gournay ... payment to the petitioner for Easter term, each according ... of various writs to the treasurer and barons [of the Exchequer] ... the said payments according to the purport and effect of the said grant and ratification, notwithstanding ... Norwich is payable at the feast of ...
- Nature of endorsement
- On 12 January in the 2nd year [1401], with the bishop of Durham, the earls of Northumberland and Worcester, the chancellor, treasurer, keeper of the privy seal, Prophete and Cursoun present in the council, the letters patent should be examined in the Chancery ... of the King made to Felbrigg or in the Chancery ... writs of liberate or allocate just as appears in a writ of formedon.
- Places mentioned
- Norwich, [Norfolk]
- Suffolk
- Norfolk.
- People mentioned
- George Felbrigg, knight, late husband of the petitioner
- Richard II, King of England
- John Gurney (Gournay), late sheriff of Suffolk
- Bishop of Durham
- Earl of Northumberland
- Earl of Worcester
- keeper of the privy seal
- [John] Prophete
- John Cursoun, recorder
- George de [Ase]lbrygg.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? 1401, with reference to the endorsement dated to the second year; the king must be Henry IV, since Richard II is referred to as the late king. John de Gournay was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk from 1399-1400 and again from November to December 1408.
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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/C9294136/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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