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Joan Burre, widow of Piers Burre of Essex. Burre Joan [Missing]. Burre requests aid...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/327/E852

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This record is about the Joan Burre, widow of Piers Burre of Essex. Burre Joan [Missing]. Burre requests aid... dating from [c. 1310] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/327/E852
Date
[c. 1310]
Description
Petitioners
Joan Burre, widow of Piers Burre of Essex.
Name(s)
Burre, Joan
Addressees
[Missing].
Nature of request
Burre requests aid and remedy on the great damage and contempt done to her, and that the bodies of the malefactors responsible for it can be attached to answer to the king of the damages and contempt. Eastwood and other came and took her goods and chattels by force, and married her against her will. She escaped and brought a plea of rape before Brabazon, but dare not prosecute it as Eastwood and his companions reside in London and have procured the seizure of her lands. Her nearest family to preserve the inheritance of the heir and believing her dead have purchased a writ to have the land taken into the king's hand whereupon one Humphrey Walden, an associate of Eastwood has procured to have the lands for the extent and is wasting the lands.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Essex
London
Chichester, [Sussex]
Tilbury, [Essex].
People mentioned
Piers (Peter) Burre of Essex, late husband of the petitioner
William de Estwode (Eastwood) of Chichester
John Geffrey (Geoffrey)
Roger Hadlegh (Hadley)
John de Hengham
Robert le C[C...]
Richard le Rede (Reed)
John [...]
Roger Brabazun (Brabazon)
Humphrey de Waleden (Walden)
Thomas Galmen of Tilbury
Geoffrey de Berdefeld (Bardfield)
John Davy of Tilbury.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1310 as the writ for the inquisition post mortem of the petitioner's late husband dates to 12 March, 3 Edw. II (CIPM, vol. V, no. 213).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. V, 1-9 Edw II, (Public Record Office, 1908), no.213 (inquisition post mortem of the petitioner's late husband)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682847/

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