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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Nicholas Stanshawe; Margery Stanshawe. Stanshawe; Stanshawe Nicholas; Margery Duke...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/341/16080
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This record is about the Nicholas Stanshawe; Margery Stanshawe. Stanshawe; Stanshawe Nicholas; Margery Duke... dating from [? 1427] 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 8/341/16080
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1427]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Nicholas Stanshawe; Margery Stanshawe.
- Name(s)
- Stanshawe; Stanshawe, Nicholas; Margery
- Addressees
- Duke of Gloucester, Guardian of England, and lords of parliament.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly faded] Nicholas Stanshawe and Margery [Stanshawe] his wife state that they have long been seised, of Margery's inheritance, of the manors of Hempton and Sturdon in Gloucestershire, and that they were put to answer before the council concerning these manors by writs of scire facias, arising from a bill of William Wydecombe, presented to the council and endorsed by authority of parliament, although William could have had a remedy for his complaint at common law by writ of entry upon disseisin. These writs of scire facias were pending before the council at Michaelmas in the king's second year, and still are, and they appeared and have been adjourned from term to term, contrary to the Great Charter and other statutes and ordinances, and to their great harm, annoyance and expense, and to their final destruction, if they do not have a remedy. They ask that the Duke and lords might ordain, by authority of the present parliament, that they might be discharged from their continual response to this bill, and that anyone who has a grievance against them might sue at common law.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] . . . by the Keeper . . . 10 December.[None on dorse]
- Places mentioned
- Henton (Hempton), Gloucestershire
- Storden (Sturdon), Gloucestershire.
- People mentioned
- [Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester, Guardian of England
- William Wydecombe (Widdecombe).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The mention of 10 December in what can still be read of the note on the face, the address to the Duke of Gloucester, Guardian of England and the lords of parliament, and the mention of the king's second year as some time ago, might suggest the parliament of December 1420, but as an award was made regarding this property on 15 February 1428 (Bristol Record Office, AC/D/3/10a-b, 11a, 11b & 12), following arbitration between these parties, this petition would seem to be slightly later, from 1422-8 and possibly from 1427.
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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/C9736561/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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