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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan du Lee, widow of William du Lee. Lee Joan King. Lee requests letters under the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/231/11510
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This record is about the Joan du Lee, widow of William du Lee. Lee Joan King. Lee requests letters under the... dating from [1403-1405] 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 8/231/11510
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1403-1405]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan du Lee, widow of William du Lee.
- Name(s)
- Lee, Joan
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Lee requests letters under the great seal that she is able to go safely about the country without disturbance of the people who disdain her because of her practice. Her husband was killed in the king's first journey into Wales and she has since then gone barefoot and taken the penance of the fast called the fast of St Mary praying for the maintenance of the king's royal and glorious estate.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None.
- Places mentioned
- Wales
- Bamburgh, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- William du Lee, late husband of the petitioner
- Thomas Grey, constable of Bamburgh Castle.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1403-1406 as other petitions in this file from Chancery Files 498 date to these years.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Chancery Files 498.
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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 Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.381-382 (calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335069/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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