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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan Beauchamp, housewife, wife of William Beauchamp. Beauchamp Joan King. housewife...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/185/9240
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This record is about the Joan Beauchamp, housewife, wife of William Beauchamp. Beauchamp Joan King. housewife... dating from [c. 1437] 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 8/185/9240
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1437]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan Beauchamp, housewife, wife of William Beauchamp.
- Name(s)
- Beauchamp, Joan
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- housewife
- Nature of request
- Joan Beauchamp requests that she be granted formal letters of pardon for a felony for which she and her husband were convicted and sentenced to death. The sentence was not carried out due to the intervention of the king's mother, but the true culprits have since been found and executed, and the accuser has repented of the conviction.
- Nature of endorsement
- [on face] Delivered by the Duke of Gloucester 12 February.
- Places mentioned
- St Andrew's, Holborn, [Middlesex]
- Temple Bar, London
- London.
- People mentioned
- William Beauchamp of St Andrew's, Holborn
- [Katherine de Valois], Queen of England
- [Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1437, with reference to the prayer for the late Queen Katherine, who died on 4 January 1437.
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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)
- English
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295118/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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