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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Margaret le Smyth, widow of Richard le Smyth of Minster. Smyth Margaret King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/310/15486
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/310/15486
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Margaret le Smyth, widow of Richard le Smyth of Minster.
- Name(s)
- Smyth, Margaret
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- Margaret, widow of Richard le Smyth, requests the resumption of her case against William and Joan Salekyn regarding certain property in Minster on the Isle of Thanet. She states that the case was sued in the court of the Abbot of St Augustine, Canterbury, and was then summoned before the eyre in Kent, but when that eyre was suspended it was returned to King's Bench at three weeks of Easter in the king's eighth year. The record of the eyre was then sent to the Exchequer, for which Margaret sued a writ to return it to the Bench. However, the case now requires another warrant to proceed.
- Nature of endorsement
- Have a writ to the justices of the Bench to bring process of the case mentioned in this petition and resume the plea and go forward, and do justice to the parties according to the law and customs of the land.
- Places mentioned
- Minster, [Kent]
- Canterbury, [Kent]
- Isle of Thanet, [Kent].
- People mentioned
- Richard le Smyth of Minster, former husband of the petitioner
- Abbot of St Augustine, Canterbury
- William Salekyn
- Joan [Salekyn], wife of William Salekyn
- John de Stonore (Stonor), justice
- sheriff of Kent.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1332, with reference to CCR 1330-3, p.602, a signification seemingly relating to this case. However, the petition clearly refers to the events of the Kent eyre of 1333-4 (Crook, Records of the General Eyre, p.188), while the reference to Easter in the king's eighth year would indicate a date during or after 1334.
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.602 (earlier signification relating to this case)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682496/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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