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Isabel Abel. Abel Isabel King. Abel requests letters to the chancellor to grant writs...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/247/12345

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This record is about the Isabel Abel. Abel Isabel King. Abel requests letters to the chancellor to grant writs... dating from [1342] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/247/12345
Date
[1342]
Description
Petitioners
Isabel Abel.
Name(s)
Abel, Isabel
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Abel requests letters to the chancellor to grant writs to the justices that are first assigned in the county of Warwick to finish her oyer and terminer still pending before them for which she has been falsely imprisoned, and she requests remedy as her oyer and terminer has been long delayed to her damage.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Warwickshire.
People mentioned
Henry de Sidenhale
Roger Hillary
Thomas de Astelee (Astley).
Note
The petition dates to 1342 as the privy seal warrant with which this petition was possibly formerly enclosed dates to 7 May 1342 [16 Edw. III] (C 81/283/14706).
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner see SC 8/88/4380

For the privy seal warrant with which this petition was possibly enclosed, see no. 14706 in C 81/283

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/C9439951/

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