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Theobald Gorges, son and heir of John Gorges. Gorges Theobald Council. Theobald Gorges...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/167/8345
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/167/8345
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1423-1424]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Theobald Gorges, son and heir of John Gorges.
- Name(s)
- Gorges, Theobald
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- Theobald Gorges requests that he be granted livery and seisin of his lands in Sturminster Marshall, as he is now of full age. He states that a petition was sent to the parliament of November 1422, stating that, although the inquisition held on his brother's death by Hody on 22 June 1419 recorded that he was aged 13, he was actually then aged 17. A further inquisition, ordered on 20 February 1423 and held at Dorchester by Carrant on 8 March 1423, has confirmed his claim.
- Nature of endorsement
- On 1 May in the second year it was agreed by the lords of the council with the authority of parliament that the chancellor should send writs to the sheriffs of Hampshire, Devon, Somerset and Dorset ordering them to deliver to Theobald of the lands pertaining to him.
- Places mentioned
- Blaneford (Blandford Forum), Dorset
- Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
- Dorchester, Dorset
- Hampshire
- Devon
- Somerset.
- People mentioned
- John Gorges, brother of the petitioner
- Thomas Gorges, father of the petitioner
- Thomas Hody, escheator of Dorset
- Henry V, King of England
- William Carrant, escheator of Dorset
- William Payn.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Presumably the petition was presented at some point between the latest date noted in the text (the date of the second inquisition, 8 March 1423) and the date of the endorsement, given as 1 May 1424. CCR 1422-9 pp.180-182 is dated 30 April 1425.
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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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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429, (Public Record Office, 1933), pp.180-182 (instructions to take the fealty of the petitioner, and to deliver his lands to him)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. XXII, 1-5 Hen VI, (Boydell & Brewer, 2003), no.15 (inquisition post mortem of Florence, widow of John Gorges)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429 , (Public Record Office, 1901), p.66 (commission to Carrant and Payn to hold an inquisition into the petitioner's true age, issued in response to the earlier petition) & p.89 (similar commission)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.285a-b (enrolment of a later petition from the same petitioner on the parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294190/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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