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Agnes de Knelle, daughter of Edmund de Knelle, knight. de Knelle Agnes Chancellor....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/300/14998

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Reference
SC 8/300/14998
Date
[1389]
Description
Petitioners
Agnes de Knelle, daughter of Edmund de Knelle, knight.
Name(s)
de Knelle, Agnes
Addressees
Chancellor.
Nature of request
Knelle requests that she might be granted a writ to the escheator of Sussex to make an inquisition concerning the rent granted to her for her life by Belknapp in Great Knelle and elsewhere long before he forfeited, or that another remedy might be provided as the rent is withheld by the escheator following the forfeiture and she has nothing to live on.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Great Knelle, [Sussex]
Beckley, [Sussex]
Northiam, [Sussex]
Wiittersham, [Sussex].
People mentioned
Edmund de Knelle, knight
Robert Belknapp, knight.
Note
The petition dates to 1389 as the order to remove the king's hand from the rent on 23 January 1389 (CCR 1385-9, p.559).
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. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1921), p.559 (order to remove the king's hand)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518202/

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