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Maud de Overton, daughter of Alice de Overton. de Overton Maud King. Overton requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/246/12289

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This record is about the Maud de Overton, daughter of Alice de Overton. de Overton Maud King. Overton requests... dating from [1353] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/246/12289
Date
[1353]
Description
Petitioners
Maud de Overton, daughter of Alice de Overton.
Name(s)
de Overton, Maud
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Overton requests that she is able to sue a writ of annuity in Common Pleas for 10 marks from the hospital of St Giles, and that the chancellor be ordered not to issue any writ in disturbance or delay of her and her suit against the master and brothers and sisters of the hospital. She was granted a corrody there by the master and brothers and sisters with the condition that she receive 10 marks annually from the hospital if it was withdrawn, and it was withdrawn and she has unsuccessfully sued to the chancellor for the annuity.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
St Giles without Cripplegate, London.
Note
The petition dates to 1353 as the privy seal warrant with which it was formerly enclosed dates to 12 April 1353 [27 Edw. III] (C 81/357/22111).
Related material

For the privy seal warrant with which this petition was originally enclosed see no. 22111 in C 81/357

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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/C9439895/

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