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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Walter Mathew (Matthew). Mathew (Matthew) Walter King. Mathew requests that the king...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/338/E1205
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This record is about the Walter Mathew (Matthew). Mathew (Matthew) Walter King. Mathew requests that the king... dating from [1480] 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 8/338/E1205
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1480]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter Mathew (Matthew).
- Name(s)
- Mathew (Matthew), Walter
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Mathew requests that the king send his letters under the privy seal to Savell and the others jointly or severally to be addressed commanding them to appear before the king and the lords of the council at a certain day to answer the premises and such other things that at their coming will be laid against them. Mathew states that he was possessed of lands and tenements in Rastrick by inheritance through his wife from her uncle, and on the first day of the present month of June, Savell and others came arrayed for war and entered the same land and a poor woman who was the petitioner's farmer there, assaulted and ousted from the land, and chased her two sons away, and they came to the petitioner in Essex, but they dare not return because of the threats of the malefactors and can have no recovery.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face].Letters are to be sent to Savell with his servants the 12th day of June etc. in the 20th year to appear at Westminster in the octave of St John next under pain of £100.[On dorse].Walter Mathew against Nicholas Savell.
- Places mentioned
- Rastrick, [West Riding of] Yorkshire
- Essex
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Joan [Mathew (Matthew)]
- Richard Thornehill, uncle of the petitioner's wife
- Nicholas Savell, gentleman
- William Maunsell, yeoman
- John Maunsell, yeoman
- Thomas Ryding (Riding), yeoman
- Alexander Sawnder (Saunder), yeoman.
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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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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9683333/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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