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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan Gurney, widow of Thomas de Gurney. Gurney Joan King and council. [The right-hand...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/311/15554
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This record is about the Joan Gurney, widow of Thomas de Gurney. Gurney Joan King and council. [The right-hand... dating from [1331-1334] 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 8/311/15554
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1331-1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan Gurney, widow of Thomas de Gurney.
- Name(s)
- Gurney, Joan
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [The right-hand side of the petition is missing]Joan, widow of Thomas de Gurnay, requests the manors of English Combe, Farrington and West Harptree as her dowry. The manors, now in the King's hand, descended to her late husband from his father and grandfather.
- Nature of endorsement
- It was answered elsewhere.
- Places mentioned
- Inglescombe (English Combe), [Somerset]
- Farrington (Farrington Gurney), [Somerset]
- West Harptree, [Somerset].
- People mentioned
- Thomas de Gurnay (Gurney)
- Anselm [de Gurney, grandfather of Thomas de Gurney]
- Thomas [de Gurney], eldest son and heir of Anselm de Gurney.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1334 in Rot. Parl., vol. II, p. 77, although it possibly dates to c. 1331 (See SC 8/296/14778 and SC 8/49/2446).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/49/2446
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.77a (no.19) (edition of petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 73-89, no. 19 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682564/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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