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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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Margery Boys, Ralph Barton and Alice Barton his wife, and Adam Midlyng and Alice...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/198/9864
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/198/9864
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1419-1420
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Margery Boys, Ralph Barton and Alice Barton his wife, and Adam Midlyng and Alice Midlyng his wife.
- Name(s)
- Boys; Barton; Barton; Midlyng; Midlyng, Margery; Ralph; Alice; Adam; Alice
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- Margery Boys, Ralph Barton and Alice his wife, and Adam Midlyng and Alice his wife, state that in the record and process of an assize of novel disseisin held between them and Amice Knechebole and others, concerning lands in Great Dunmow and High Roding, Essex, one John Boys was described as the brother of Margery, Alice and Alice, through the negligence of the clerks, when he was in fact their father. They petitioned the present King, and received a writ to the justices of Common Bench, to examine the record and process and have it amended if necessary, but this writ has not yet been put into execution. They ask the commons to ask the Duke of Bedford, with the advice and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal in parliament and by authority of the same, to ordain that the errors in the record and process be corrected.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Let it be sent to the lords.[On dorse] This petition is to be sent to Chancery and the Chancellor for the time being is to have full power by authority of this parliament held at Westminster on 16 October in the seventh year of the reign of King Henry, the fifth since the conquest, to make and ordain such a remedy and redress for the supplicants named in the said petition on the matter contained in the same petition, as will seem best to his wise discretion etc.Be it remembered that on 6 November in the eighth year of the King mentioned above, at the request of the aforementioned Margery, Ralph, Alice, Adam and Alice these tenors were exemplified in due form.
- Places mentioned
- Great Dunmow, Essex
- High Roding, Essex.
- People mentioned
- William Hankeford (Hankford), justice
- Robert Hill, justice
- Henry [IV], King of England
- Amice Knechebole
- John Boys
- John [of Lancaster], Duke of Bedford, King's Lieutenant in England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The endorsement is datable to 15 October 7 Henry V (1419), and the exemplification of the petition to 6 November 8 Henry V (1420).
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295753/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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