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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Agnes de Morehall (la More, Morhalle), widow of John de Morehall. de Morehall (la...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/222/11100
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/222/11100
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1389]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Agnes de Morehall (la More, Morhalle), widow of John de Morehall.
- Name(s)
- de Morehall (la More, Morhalle), Agnes
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Agnes de Morhalle requests a commission of enquiry into an attack on her property at Moor Hall by Thomas de Morehall and others, stealing and destroying property to her damage of £200. She states that these lands had been enfeoffed to her and her husband for life, with remainders to Thomas de Morehall and others, but Thomas has attacked her despite her letters of protection and a privy seal letter issued to Thomas on this matter.
- Nature of endorsement
- Sue in chancery, and have remedy according to the statutes in this case.
- Places mentioned
- Morehall (Moor Hall in Wixford), Warwickshire
- Ekleshale (Exhall by Alcester), Warwickshire
- Shelfhill (Shelfield), [Warwickshire]
- Aston (Aston Cantlow), [Warwickshire]
- Oseley (Oversley), [Warwickshire]
- Warwick, [Warwickshire]
- Alcester, [Warwickshire].
- People mentioned
- John de Morehall, late husband of the petitioner
- Robert Daunser (Dansere), parson of Exhall
- Richard Welford
- John Poywyk
- Thomas [de Morehall], son of John de Morehall
- John Clopton, cousin of John de Morehall
- William Spernore
- Guy Spyny (Spine, Spyne)
- Peter Holt
- John Acton
- Roger Aylesbury, parker of Shelfield
- Thomas Trap of Aston
- John de Aston
- William [de Aston], son of John de Astone
- Elys John, bailiff of Oversley
- William le Ferour
- Roger le Sherman of Warwick
- Henry le Bailiff of Alcester
- John Stafford
- Earl of Warwick.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Seemingly dated in error on the guard to? 1378-9, with reference to SC 8/129/6426. John de Morhalle was still alive in 1376 (CIPM XIV, no.250), and in 1381-2, although he had died by 1389, in which year Agnes made a fine regarding her own inheritance. The history of this family is given in G.T.O. Bridgeman, 'Some Account of the families of Beysin, Morehall and Clopton', Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. I (1878), pp.281-310, although the latter part of that article (possibly mistakenly) discounts the terms of the entail mentioned here, which it dates (with reference to Dugdale) to 1378-9. A date around 1389 for this petition would appear likely, presumably shortly before SC 8/129/6426, which mentions that Thomas had been imprisoned and released. John de Clopton was the husband of Agnes and John's only daughter, to whom Agnes' own inheritance certainly passed.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition from this petitioner on this matter see SC 8/129/6426
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334660/
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