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Cassandra de Rosse (Ross), widow of Wadyn de Ross. de Rosse (Ross) Cassandra King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/319/E358

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This record is about the Cassandra de Rosse (Ross), widow of Wadyn de Ross. de Rosse (Ross) Cassandra King... dating from [c. 1318] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/319/E358
Date
[c. 1318]
Description
Petitioners
Cassandra de Rosse (Ross), widow of Wadyn de Ross.
Name(s)
de Rosse (Ross), Cassandra
Addressees
King and council.
Places mentioned
Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
Nature of request
Rosse requests letters under the targe to the prior of the hospital of St Katherine of Lincoln to expedite her business, the king having sent her there for her maintenance after the loss of Berwick.
Nature of endorsement
She should sue to the king.
Note
The petition is dated to 1318 as the request to the bishop to admit the petitioner to the hospital was issued on 2 October 1318 (CCR 1318-23, p.101). It is likely that this petition is part of the group of petitions that formed an original file at the end of file 318 dated to 1318-1319, the name of the petitioner appearing among those of petitioners to the parliament held in October 1318 (E 175/1/22).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/87/4310

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 II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.99 (order to the master and brethren of the hospital of Newton in Holderness to admit the petitioner)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529410/

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