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Margaret Golye, widow of Edmund Golye of Taunton. Golye Margaret King. Golye requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/231/11518

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This record is about the Margaret Golye, widow of Edmund Golye of Taunton. Golye Margaret King. Golye requests... dating from [? 1395-? 1422] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/231/11518
Date
[? 1395-? 1422]
Description
Petitioners
Margaret Golye, widow of Edmund Golye of Taunton.
Name(s)
Golye, Margaret
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Golye requests letters to Lopynford commanding him to deliver to her all her charters, evidences and muniments, and all the lands and tenements of her inheritance which he still wrongly detains from her, and that he be summoned before the king on a certain day to show the reason for his actions. He took Golye's charters from Ladde, in whose keeping she had placed them and has sold some of her land and detains the remainder, and he is of such power that she cannot sue for them without the king's aid.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Taunton, Somerset
Honiton, [Deveon].
People mentioned
Edmund Golye of Taunton, late husband of the petitioner
John Lopynford of Honiton, man of law
Ellis Ladde.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335077/

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