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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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Ada de Neketon, widow of Nicholas de Neketon of Suffolk. de Neketon Ada Chancellor....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/304/15187
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This record is about the Ada de Neketon, widow of Nicholas de Neketon of Suffolk. de Neketon Ada Chancellor.... dating from [c. 1297] 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 8/304/15187
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1297]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Ada de Neketon, widow of Nicholas de Neketon of Suffolk.
- Name(s)
- de Neketon, Ada
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- Ada, widow of Nicholas de Neketon, requests remedy against Hirst, against whom she brought a writ on the quinzaine of Easter last concerning tenements worth 5 marks yearly before Howard, who ordered Ada and Hirst to appear before the justices of the bench on the octave of St John to hear their judgment, on which day, at Hirst's procurement, the record and process were delayed and postponed until the octave of Martinmas, when he falsely claimed that he was in the King's service to delay the matter, and now he has sent to his friends in the King's service in Scotland to have a letter witnessing that he was in the King's service so that he can have the King's protection.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Suffolk
- Scotland.
- People mentioned
- [John Langton, canon of Lincoln], Chancellor
- Nicholas de Neketon of Suffolk
- Sewal del Hirst of Suffolk
- William Haward (Howard), King's justice in Suffolk.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1297 since it refers to Howard as the King's justice in Suffolk and to absence in the King's service in Scotland.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9528934/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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