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Isabel Umfrey, widow of John Umfrey of Ashwell. Umfrey Isabel King. Isabel Umfrey,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/336/15869

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This record is about the Isabel Umfrey, widow of John Umfrey of Ashwell. Umfrey Isabel King. Isabel Umfrey,... dating from [1437] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/336/15869
Date
[1437]
Description
Petitioners
Isabel Umfrey, widow of John Umfrey of Ashwell.
Name(s)
Umfrey, Isabel
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Isabel Umfrey, whose daughter Agnes was apprenticed with Richard and Isabel Grant, requests remedy against Baldwin and other servants of Lord Fanhope, who raped Agnes and carried her by boat to Westminster where they beat her so that she feared for her life, and then took her into Bedfordshire where they kept her, doing with her as they pleased, and forced her to marry Baldwin. She requests that Baldwin be summoned before the council to answer and that Agnes be returned to her friends.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Ashwell, Cambridgeshire
London
Picardy, [France]
St Lawrence Pountney parish, London
Westminster
Bedfordshire.
People mentioned
John Umfrey of Ashwell
Agnes Umfrey, daughter of the petitioner
Richard Graunt (Grant) of London
Isabel [Grant], wife of Richard Grant of London, silkwoman
Baldwin of Picardy, servant of Lord Fanhope
servants of Lord Fanhope
[John Cornwall], Lord Faunhop (Fanhope).
Note
The petition dates to 1437 since it refers to events of the Ascension 15 Henry VI as 'last passed'.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736257/

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