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. . . wife or widow of John . . . [King] [This petition is fragmentary] . . . of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/340/16025

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This record is about the . . . wife or widow of John . . . [King] [This petition is fragmentary] . . . of... dating from [1415-1422] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/340/16025
Date
[1415-1422]
Description
Petitioners
. . . wife or widow of John . . .
Addressees
[King]
Nature of request
[This petition is fragmentary] . . . of our most sovereign lord the king in his realm of France retained . . . were . . . of certain lands and tenements with their appurtenances in New[ton] . . . of their estate . . . without any interruption until the day of the Annunciation of Our Lady last . . . with force and arms [against the] peace of our lord the king, that is to say with swords, poleaxes, broadswords, bows and arrows . . . the said wrongful disseisin they maintain him, and with which lands and tenements the said William Fynamour afterwards enfeoffed Edward . . . John Ware and William Hobikym of Newton . . . aforesaid, who are parceners of the said lands and tenements and are the . . . of the said John her husband, and both the said William and the said Edward, John, John, Walter, John and William have taken . . . value of £100 and still keep them for their own use, to the great harm and ruin of the poor estate . . . lordship to consider this matter and thereupon to grant the said petitioner those writs of the king which are necessary to her, addressed to the sheriff of the county . . . of the said lands and tenements together with restitution of their aforesaid goods and chattels until the coming of our lord the king into England . . . to grant another writ addressed to the said sheriff to have the said William, Edward, John, John, Walter, John and [William] . . .
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
France
Newton [unidentified].
People mentioned
John . . ., husband of petitioner
William Fynamour
Edward . . .
John . . .
John . . .
Walter . . .
John Ware
William Hobikym of Newton.
Note
The hand and the mention of the king's coming to England would suggest a date in the reign of Henry V, during one of his absences in France - most probably between July 1417 and February 1421, or between June 1421 and September 1422.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736506/

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