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Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford, Henry Percy the son, knight, Thomas Anlaby,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/251/12538

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This record is about the Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford, Henry Percy the son, knight, Thomas Anlaby,... dating from [c. 1395-c. 1397] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/251/12538
Date
[c. 1395-c. 1397]
Description
Petitioners
Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford, Henry Percy the son, knight, Thomas Anlaby, clerk, Thomas Cogsall, John Doreward, Clement Spice, John Conyers, Thomas Saward and Thomas Sparowe.
Name(s)
de Bohun, Countess of Hereford; Percy; Anlaby; Cogsall; Doreward; Spice; Conyers; Saward; Sparowe, Joan; Henry; Thomas; Thomas; John; Clement; John; Thomas; Thomas
Addressees
King.
Occupation
clerk
Nature of request
The petitioners request an assize of novel disseisin against Corbet and Kynyastonman regarding free tenements in various places in Essex.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] Granted by the king himself.
Places mentioned
Cause (Cawrse), [Shropshire]
Bradwell, Essex
Dengie, Essex
Hockley, Essex
Pilton, Essex
Tillingham, Essex.
People mentioned
Richard Corbet of Cause
Richard Kynyastonman
William Richyll
William Brenchele
Willam Skrene
John Cokayne
John Culpeper
Robert Neweport of Essex.
Note
Dated on the guard to c. 1395-7, with reference to a number of calendar entries relating to these tenements.
Related material

For another petition by Spice, see SC 8/267/13309

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1392-1396, (Public Record Office, 1925), p.398 (charter of John de la Mare of London relating to this property) & p.422 (quitclaim of these manors by de la Mare to the countess and others)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.373 (order to the escheator to remove king's hand from property in Bradwell)
  • Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. XI, Ric II, 1391-1399, (Public Record Office, 1929), p.184 (commitment of this property to Roger Lestrange and others)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440144/

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