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Juliane Herbard, widow of Norwich, daughter and heir of Henry Herbard and Margaret...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/169/8449

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Reference
SC 8/169/8449
Date
[1426-1437]
Description
Petitioners
Juliane Herbard, widow of Norwich, daughter and heir of Henry Herbard and Margaret his wife.
Name(s)
Herbard, Juliane
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Herbard requests that Paston be made to appear before the king to be examined concerning his actions against her, and to show the evidences that were her mother's, and to ordain that she should receive her evidences and to be admitted to her lands in Plumstead as law demands. Paston offered to purchase her rights to land in Plumstead which was her inheritance, but she refused, and he procured that she be imprisoned in London in chains where he forced her to make an acquittance of her rights in the same so that she could obtain her freedom, and then again imprisoning her.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Norwich, [Norfolk]
Little Plumstead, [Norfolk]
London.
People mentioned
Henry Herbard, father of the petitioner
Margaret [Herbard], wife of Henry Herbard, and mother of the petitioner
William Palmere of Plumstead, father of Margaret Herbard,
William Paston.
Note
The petition is dated to 1426-1437 on the basis of the dating given to this petition and other documents by Davis (Davis, Paston Letters, part II::p.509). However, the dating of SC 8/116/5771 suggests that this petition could be as late as 1444.
Related material

For a related document, see SC 8/336/15868A

For the memorandum formerly attached to this petition, see SC 8/169/8450

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/116/5771

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D., vol. I, J. Gairdner, (Chatto & Windus, 1904), pp.34-5 (brief discussion of petitioners claims against Paston) & pp.331-334 (full editions of further petitions by the same petitioner)
  • The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D., vol. II, J. Gairdner, (Chatto & Windus, 1904), pp.26-8 (reference to dispute with the petitioner in letter of William Paston I)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294297/

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