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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Draper of Gloucestershire. Draper John Council. Draper recounts that he and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/216/10754
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This record is about the John Draper of Gloucestershire. Draper John Council. Draper recounts that he and... 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 8/216/10754
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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
- John Draper of Gloucestershire.
- Name(s)
- Draper, John
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- Draper recounts that he and his wife sued in the Common Bench in Gloucestershire against Mattok for lands and tenements in Horton and Yate as the right of his wife. To prevent them from having recovery Winchcombe purchased from Mattok the said lands and tenements, which he greatly wasted and stripped. He also had the petitioner indicted of felony and outlawed, which indictment was found to be false and the outlawry reversed. The petitioner requests that Winchcombe appear before the council to answer for these acts and to redress them and be punished.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Gloucestershire
- Horton, Gloucestershire
- Yate, Gloucestershire.
- People mentioned
- John de Wynchecombe (Winchcombe), clerk of the King's Bench
- Margaret [Draper], wife of the petitioner
- Nicholas Mattok.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1390, with reference to CPR 1388-92, p. 364, a 1391 pardon to Draper.
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.364 (pardon to Draper)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334310/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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