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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Maud . . . Maud [King and council] [This petition is fragmentary] . . . council ....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/340/16033
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This record is about the Maud . . . Maud [King and council] [This petition is fragmentary] . . . council .... dating from [? c. 1365-? c. 1375] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/340/16033
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1365-? c. 1375]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Maud . . .
- Name(s)
- Maud
- Addressees
- [King and council]
- Nature of request
- [This petition is fragmentary] . . . council . . . the year of the reign of our lord the king . . . Maud . . . still withholds . . . Maud . . . her life and was . . . of greater . . . which trespasses the said . . . years and always/still is . . . of the king can be done . . . party and has the . . . of the king addressed to the sheriffs of Devon to punish the said William . . . said William holds and maintains the said Walter in the vill of Brad. . . the king can take him under arrest. And furthermore the said Maud sued by . . . William Wichyngham and John Moubray, justices, by due process . . . virtue of which she was seised of this. Which dower William Fouk . . . William Cary had the said Maud seized and put in prison . . . put in hobbles and irons so harshly that she had lost part . . . remedy, for God and as a work of charity, as she does not dare . . . threaten further wherever they can find her, and also she is not . . . remedy, for God and in reverence of the just judgment.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Devon.
- People mentioned
- William Wichyngham (Witchingham), justice
- John Moubray (Mowbray), justice
- William Fouk
- William Cary.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Tentatively dated with reference to William Witchingham, who was a justice of Common Pleas between 1365 and 1377, and John Mowbray, who was a justice of Common Pleas between 1359 and 1373 (Sainty, The Judges of England, 1272-1990).
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736514/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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