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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Weston; Alice Weston, wife of John Weston. Weston; Weston John; Alice Chancellor....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/303/15117
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This record is about the John Weston; Alice Weston, wife of John Weston. Weston; Weston John; Alice Chancellor.... dating from [1390] 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 8/303/15117
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1390]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Weston; Alice Weston, wife of John Weston.
- Name(s)
- Weston; Weston, John; Alice
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- John and Alice Weston request that whereas they brought a writ of assize of novel disseisin before Rickhill and Cassy at Winchester on Monday before Mary Magdalene in the 12th year of the King's reign [1388] against Upton concerning their free tenement in Warblington, on which day Upton did not appear but Hervy answered that Upton had been outlawed at Stevens's suit in Sussex, because of which the said tenements were seized into the King's hand, because of which the justices would not take the assize, that a writ be directed to the justices to proceed with taking the assize.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Winchester, [Hampshire]
- Hampshire
- Warblington, [Hampshire]
- Sussex.
- People mentioned
- [William Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester], Chancellor
- William Rykhyll (Rickhill), justice of assize in Hampshire
- John Cassy, justice of assize in Hampshire
- William Upton
- John Hervy, bailiff of William Upton
- John Stevenes (Stevens).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1390 when the justices of assize in Hampshire were ordered to proceed to render judgment, in accordance with this petition (CCR 1389-92, p. 112).
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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 Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), p.112 (order to proceed in accordance with petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9528864/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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