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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan Basset, widow of Ralph Basset. Basset Joan King and council. Joan, widow of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/311/15514
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This record is about the Joan Basset, widow of Ralph Basset. Basset Joan King and council. Joan, widow of... dating from [1344] 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 8/311/15514
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1344]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan Basset, widow of Ralph Basset.
- Name(s)
- Basset, Joan
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Joan, widow of Ralph Basset, requests that the justices be ordered by writ to proceed with her plea against Alice by writ of dower concerning the third part of the manor of Loughborough, and to render justice. The justices will not proceed because Alice claimed that the King granted the manor to her and Beaumont.
- Nature of endorsement
- The justices should be ordered by writ to proceed with the plea and reach their final decision.
- Places mentioned
- Drayton (Drayton Basset), [Staffordshire]
- Loughborough, [Leicestershire].
- People mentioned
- Ralph Basset of Drayton
- Alice [de Beaumont], widow of Henry de Beaumont
- Henry de Beaumond (Beaumont).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1344, when the justices were ordered to proceed with this plea in accordance with the petition which it mentions was presented in the last Parliament at Westminster.
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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)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. VII, 1343-1346, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.458 (order to justices to proceed, in accordance with petition)
- The 'Lists and Indexes' of records at the Public Record Office, Collections for a History of Staffordshi, J.C. Wedgwood, (Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucest, 1912), p.213 (partial edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682524/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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