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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Edward le Despenser, knight. Despenser Edward King. Despenser requests that he be...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/226/11298
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This record is about the Edward le Despenser, knight. Despenser Edward King. Despenser requests that he be... dating from [1373] 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 8/226/11298
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1373]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Edward le Despenser, knight.
- Name(s)
- Despenser, Edward
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Despenser requests that he be granted livery of his lands and issues of Killoteran which are in right of his wife as the same has been seized by the justices and escheators of those parts and are still held because the same were not defended in the time of war, and having regard that Despenser has in that time been out of the realm in the king's service.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face:]Let it be done, by the king.[On dorse, none].
- Places mentioned
- Killoteran, [Co. Waterford], Ireland.
- People mentioned
- Elizabeth [le Despenser], wife of the petitioner, and daughter of Bartholomew de Burgherssh
- Bartholomew de Burwasshe (Burghersshe).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1373 as the lands were restored to the petitioner on 4 March 1373 (CPR 1370-4, p.285).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/207/10303
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XV, 1370-1374, (Public Record Office, 1914), p.285 (restoration of the lands to the petitioner)
- 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), p.72 (calendar of petition with references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334858/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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