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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Elizabeth Gorges, widow of Bartholomew Gorges. Gorges Elizabeth King. Elizabeth Gorges...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/181/9004
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This record is about the Elizabeth Gorges, widow of Bartholomew Gorges. Gorges Elizabeth King. Elizabeth Gorges... dating from [c. 1397] 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 8/181/9004
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1397]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Elizabeth Gorges, widow of Bartholomew Gorges.
- Name(s)
- Gorges, Elizabeth
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Elizabeth Gorges requests that the king order the chancellor to hold an investigation and do right to her concerning the manor of Wraxall. She states that her husband held the manor in chief, but on his death the escheator of Somerset allowed Thomas Gorges to take possession instead of taking it into the king's hands for Bartholomew's daughters. Thomas has despoiled the manor of goods worth £40, and refuses to allow Elizabeth her dower.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Wraxall, [Somerset]
- Somerset.
- People mentioned
- Bartholomew Gorges, late husband of the petitioner
- Thomas Gorges, brother of Bartholomew Gorges
- Escheator of Somerset.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Bartholomew Gorges died on 21 June 1396. Writs were issued on 19 August 1396 (CIPM, vol. XVII, nos.786-9), and the inquisitions, held in September 1396, all found that Thomas was the heir to Bartholomew's property, as two fines (also ordered to be certified in September 1396) showed that it was to descend to his male heirs. A writ to assign dower to Elizabeth was issued on 28 September 1396, and further orders appointing commissioners to apportion dower were issued on 6 June 1397, 30 October 1397 and 4 May 1398. The near-duplicate of this petition at SC 8/182/9079 appears to have resulted in the latter of these commissions, and thus it appears likely that this petition relates to one of the other two, or at least to this same period.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a chancery warrant formerly enclosed with that petition see no.11991 of C 81/572
For a duplicate of this petition, written by a different scribe and slightly differently addressed, see SC 8/182/9079
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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 Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. XVII, 15-23 Ric II, (Public Record Office, 1988), nos.786-91 (inquisitions post mortem of Bartholomew Gorges, assignment of dower and certification of two fines)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.159 (appointment of commissioners to apportion dower to the petitioner) & p.306 (similar appointment) and p.366 (similar appointment)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294881/
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