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Sybil de Mohun, widow of John de Mohun. de Mohun Sybil King and council. Mohun requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/169/8441
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/169/8441
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1333]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Sybil de Mohun, widow of John de Mohun.
- Name(s)
- de Mohun, Sybil
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Mohun requests that the king order by his writs to the justices who are holding her pleas of dower to do justice to her and hold the final discussions of the pleas so that she can have her dower. She brought writs against the Meres and Courtenays for thirds of the manors of Mildenhall and Cadley but she has been delayed as the justices do not wish to proceed as the matter concerned the lord the king, and have done nothing since a previous command by the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let a writ be directed to the justices that if the process be such then they should go to judgment, notwithstanding the allegation.
- Places mentioned
- Mildenhall, [Wiltshire]
- Caledeleye (Cadleigh), [Devon].
- People mentioned
- John de Mohun, late husband of the petitioner
- John de Mere
- Eleanor [de Mere], wife of John de Mere
- Hugh de Courteneye (Courtenay), knight
- Agnes [de Courteneye (Courtenay), wife of Hugh de Courtenay
- John, kinsman and heir of John de Mohun
- Bishop of Norwich.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1333 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Ryley manuscript which dated the petitions to parliament held in 7 Edw. III (1333) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.71a-b (no.4)).
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.71a-b (no.4) (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. 70-2, no. 4 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294289/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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