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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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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 (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/327/E852
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1310]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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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 Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. V, 1-9 Edw II, (Public Record Office, 1908), no.213 (inquisition post mortem of the petitioner's late husband)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682847/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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