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Elizabeth Golden. Golden Elizabeth King. Golden complained to the king at his manor...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/334/E1192
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This record is about the Elizabeth Golden. Golden Elizabeth King. Golden complained to the king at his manor... dating from [? c. 1472] 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 8/334/E1192
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1472]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Elizabeth Golden.
- Name(s)
- Golden, Elizabeth
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Golden complained to the king at his manor of Woodstock for the great murder and slaying of her husband John by Langham and others, for which the king sent his letters missive to Lord Hastings to take the five, and accordingly he took Gardyner, but the others go wherever it pleases them, and she, meeting them in Atherstone, she called upon the constable and commanded him in the king's name to take them, but he answered that he had no authority without a general commission from the king by which it be known by proclamation in all the market towns in the counties, and the murderers have threatened to kill her because of her suit, and she now dare not return to her house.
- Nature of endorsement
- Elizabeth Golden.
- Places mentioned
- Woodstock, [Oxfordshire]
- Gopsall, Leicestershire
- Twycross, Leicestershire
- Leicester, [Leicestershire]
- Warwick, [Warwickshire]
- Stafford, [Staffordshire]
- Atherstone, [Warwickshire].
- People mentioned
- John Golden, late husband of the petitioner
- Robert Langham of Gopsall in Twycross parish, gentleman
- John Fermour of Twycross, husbandman
- John Taverner of Twycross, husbandman
- Harry Denston of Twycross, husbandman
- William Gardyner of Twycross, smith
- [William Hastings], Lord Hastings
- John Walker, constable of Atherstone.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to? c. 1472 on the basis of the dating of SC 8/334/E1191 the preceding petition which is sewn to this petition. The petition refers to Lord Hastings, so is clearly of Edward IV's reign.
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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)
- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9683320/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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