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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Despayne. Despayne Thomas Council. Despayne requests recovery of the manor...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/213/10646
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This record is about the Thomas Despayne. Despayne Thomas Council. Despayne requests recovery of the manor... dating from [c. 1390] 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 8/213/10646
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1390]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Despayne.
- Name(s)
- Despayne, Thomas
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- Despayne requests recovery of the manor of Braham, which he purchased from Hartlington for 200 marks and occupied peacefully for four years until Hartlington, Chamber, Pensax and others disseised him and took his goods worth £200. Despayne brought an assize of novel disseisin, pending which Pensax and 25 others attacked him at night at his house so that he feared for his life, and they made a tomb for him in Brame wood intending to bury him alive.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Brame (Braham), [West Riding of] Yorkshire.
- People mentioned
- William de Hertlyngton (Hartlington)
- William de Chambre (Chamber)
- Percival de Pencaux (Pensax).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition complaining about Pensax, see SC 8/213/10645
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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/C9334203/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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