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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Eleanor de Quency (Quincy), Countess of Winchester. de Quency (Quincy), Countess...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/199/9936
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This record is about the Eleanor de Quency (Quincy), Countess of Winchester. de Quency (Quincy), Countess... dating from [1264-1274] 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 8/199/9936
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1264-1274]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Eleanor de Quency (Quincy), Countess of Winchester.
- Name(s)
- de Quency (Quincy), Countess of Winchester, Eleanor
- Addressees
- [Not specified.]
- Nature of request
- The Countess of Winchester makes four requests:1) She requests a writ that Henry le Foun be distrained to render account to her attorneys for the time when he was her Bailiff in Ireland.2) She requests a writ that the King's Bailiffs in Ireland might defend and maintain her goods, lands and tenants there.3) She requests a writ that Nicholas de Coluhrid in Ulster might be distrained to answer to her attorneys for £30 which he received from her farms in Ireland, without paying her anything.4) She asks that the four writs of Stanford might be changed, and that the justices might be Roger de Seton and William de Soham and that in the writ addressed to the county, Robert le Mareschal, John de Belesale, John de la Ynse, Ralph le Chaundelhur, Simon le Barber, Ralph le Arblaster, and John Fitz Reginald, chaplain of Stanford, who were at the disseisin, might be [named].
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Ireland
- Ulster, Ireland
- Stanford [unidentified].
- People mentioned
- Henry le Foun
- John de Saunford (Sandford), attorney of the Countess of Winchester
- David de Offington, attorney of the Countess of Winchester
- John de Seton, attorney of the Countess of Winchester
- Nicholas de Coluhrid
- Roger de Seton
- William de Soham
- Robert le Mareschal
- John de Belesale
- John de la Ynse
- Ralph le Chaundelhur
- Simon le Barber
- Ralph le Arblaster
- John Fitz Reginald, chaplain of Stanford.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1264-1274 by the death of Roger de Quency, Earl of Winchester, and by the death of his widow. The references to 'Stanford' are probably to Stamford in Lincolnshire, but this is uncertain.
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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 Fine Rolls, vol. I, Edw I, 1272-1307, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.34 (orders to the escheators to take the petitioner's lands into the king's hands on her death)
- Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), pp.63-64 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295825/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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