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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan Basset, widow of Ralph Basset of Drayton. Basset Joan King. Joan, widow of Ralph...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/220/11000
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This record is about the Joan Basset, widow of Ralph Basset of Drayton. Basset Joan King. Joan, widow of Ralph... dating from [1398] 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 8/220/11000
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1398]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan Basset, widow of Ralph Basset of Drayton.
- Name(s)
- Basset, Joan
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Joan, widow of Ralph Basset of Drayton, requests the restoration to her of the manors of Olney and Pattingham, held by her as part of her dower from her late husband. She states that she demised these lands to Tangeley, with reversions to herself in the event of the rent being in arrears, but that they were seized into the king's hands after it was found that the feoffees had an estate in the manors to the use of the Earl of Warwick, who suffered forfeiture in the Westminster parliament of 21 Richard II. The manors were then granted to the Duke of Norfolk, but were again taken into the king's hands on the Duke's forfeiture, and the rent is now in arrears.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king has charged the chancellor to do right to this lady, and that the said manor should not be granted to anyone until right has been done.
- Places mentioned
- Drayton [Basset], [Staffordshire]
- Olney, Buckinghamshire
- Pattingham, Staffordshire
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Ralph Basset of Drayton, knight, late husband of the petitioner
- Roger Tangeley, clerk
- Richard Bromley, clerk
- Thomas de Aldebury, clerk
- William Spernore, esquire
- John Danyel, esquire
- Walter Power, esquire
- Thomas [Beauchamp], Earl of Warwick
- Thomas [de Mowbray], Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Orders to the escheators of Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire to restore the two manors to the petitioner were issued on 20 October and 2 December 1398 respectively.
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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 Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1927), pp.346-7 (order to make restitution of the manor of Olney to the petitioner) & pp.360-1 (order to make restitution of the manor of Pattingham to the petitioner)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334559/
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