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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Alice de Belesby, widow of Peter de Belesby. de Belesby Alice King. Belesby requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/269/13442
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This record is about the Alice de Belesby, widow of Peter de Belesby. de Belesby Alice King. Belesby requests... dating from [1388] 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 8/269/13442
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1388]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Alice de Belesby, widow of Peter de Belesby.
- Name(s)
- de Belesby, Alice
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Belesby requests that the chancellor be commanded to examine the matter of the manor of South Reston and do justice to her as she was granted it with her late husband with remainder to their heirs, and after her husband's death she granted the manor to Scremby for her life but he granted it to the earl of Suffolk and others, and it has now come into the king's hand by his forfeiture as she and her children have nothing to sustain them.
- Nature of endorsement
- This petition was delivered by the king to the chancellor so that justice could be done to the petitioner.
- Places mentioned
- South Reston, Lincolnshire
- Bardwell, [Suffolk]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Peter de Belesby, late husband of the petitioner
- Thomas de Gildesburgh (Guilsborough), parson of Bardwell
- John de Porter
- William de Scremby
- John [de Belesby], son of the petitioner
- Cecile [de Belesby], daughter of the petitioner
- Michael de la Pole, earl of Suffolk
- Edmund de la Pole
- Robert de Bolton
- John de Feriby (Ferriby).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1388 as a commission was issued into the matter on 8 July 1388 (CPR 1385-9, pp.544-5).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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 Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), pp.544-5 (Commission to examine the matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517389/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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