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Margaret de Brauntistone, (Braunstone), widow of Hugh de Braunstone. de Brauntistone,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/312/E27

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This record is about the Margaret de Brauntistone, (Braunstone), widow of Hugh de Braunstone. de Brauntistone,... dating from [c. 1299] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/312/E27
Date
[c. 1299]
Description
Petitioners
Margaret de Brauntistone, (Braunstone), widow of Hugh de Braunstone.
Name(s)
de Brauntistone, (Braunstone), Margaret
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Brauntistone requests that she can pay the debts currently on demand from her for the debts of Matyngeden from when he was keeper of Windsor Castle and Forest in instalments as she has no interest in those tenements except as a stranger purchaser, and that she is able by the aid of the court to have recovery against other purchasers of the same tenements in aid of the demand.
Nature of endorsement
To the Exchequer.
Places mentioned
Windsor, [Berkshire]
Windsor forest, [Berkshire].
People mentioned
Nicholas de Matyngeden (Matyngdone), late keeper of Windsor Castle and Forest
Thomas de Seynt Vygor.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1299 based on the references to the order for delivery of the petitioner's lands held jointly with her late husband, and to orders to the escheator to take the lands of the petitioner's late husband into the king's hand (CFR 1272-1307, p.413; CCR 1296-1302, p.256).
Related material

For a duplicate of this petition without a response, see SC 8/346/E1367

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, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.256 (order to deliver to the petitioner the lands held jointly with her late husband)
  • Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. I, Edw I, 1272-1307, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.413 (order to the escheator to take Hugh de Braunstone's lands into the king's hand)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529076/

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