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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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Joan le Despenser, widow of Adam le Despenser. Despenser Joan [None]. Despenser requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/312/E13
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This record is about the Joan le Despenser, widow of Adam le Despenser. Despenser Joan [None]. Despenser requests... dating from [c. 1295] 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 8/312/E13
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1295]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan le Despenser, widow of Adam le Despenser.
- Name(s)
- Despenser, Joan
- Addressees
- [None].
- Nature of request
- Despenser requests a writ to the sheriff of Gloucestershire for her dower as her late husband's goods are in the hand of the sheriff and the chancellor does not wish to make a writ except to the escheator.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.2) Let the rolls of the Exchequer be examined, and let it be done as it ought to be done.
- Places mentioned
- Gloucestershire.
- People mentioned
- Adam le Despenser, late husband of the petitioner
- sheriff of Gloucestershire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1295 as the matter of the petitioner's dower was evidently being resolved in the period July-August 1295 and it seems likely that the petition must date closely to this period (CCR 1288-96, pp.418, 426).
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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)
- Latin
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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)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1288-1296, (Public Record Office, 1904), pp.418, 426 (orders relating to the Despenser inheritance and dower)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.138 (further order for dower in a further part of the Despenser estate)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529062/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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