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Geoffrey Stace. Stace Geoffrey King and council. Stace requests that the record of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/169/8432
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/169/8432
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Geoffrey Stace.
- Name(s)
- Stace, Geoffrey
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Stace requests that the record of the plea brought by the Chanciers against Anneise de Westhale and Stace that they had ravished and carried off John le Chancier and married him against the Chanciers' will be brought into parliament and a remedy be made. The exceptions pleaded by Westhale and Stace and others were disallowed whereupon they put themselves on the country and it was found that they ravished the heir but had not married him and damages of £250 were awarded though the land of the heir were only worth 20s. per annum
- Nature of endorsement
- The petition is to be sent to Scrope to bring the record and process before the council.
- Places mentioned
- London
- Ipswich, [Suffolk].
- People mentioned
- Richard le Chancier of London
- Mary [le Chancier], wife of Richard le Chancier
- Anneise [de Westhale], widow of Walter de Westhale
- Geoffrey le Scrope
- John [le Chancier], son and heir of Robert le Chancier.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1328 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Hale manuscript which dated the petitions to parliament held in 2 Edw. III (1328) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.14a-b (no.6)).
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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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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Marriage and divorce
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.14a-b (no.6) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 13-30, no. 6 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294279/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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