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? No Petitioner named Writ of Edward III, dated 16 May in the 40th year of his reign...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/303/15150

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Writ of Edward III, dated 16 May in the 40th year of his reign... dating from 1366 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/303/15150
Date
1366
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of Edward III, dated 16 May in the 40th year of his reign [1366], to Olney and Aylesbury to enquire into the claims of the petition of Alice, widow of Henry Ewenny.
Nature of endorsement
Aylesbury and Olney held an inquisition according to the tenor of the King's writ directed to them as appears in a schedule attached to this.
Places mentioned
Buckinghamshire.
People mentioned
Edward III, King of England
John de Olneye (Olney), escheator in Buckinghamshire
Alice [Ewenny], widow of Henry Ewenny
Henry Ewenny
John de Aylesbury, sheriff of Buckinghamshire.
Note
Dated internally to 16 May in the fortieth year of Edward III (1366).
Related material

For the petition mentioned within see SC 8/303/15149

For the inquisition taken in accordance with this writ see SC 8/304/15151

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. III, 22-51 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1937), no.635 (summary of writ with references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9528897/

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