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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Anne Stathom, widow of Harry Stathom, dame and sometime wife of William Massey. Stathom...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/344/E1302
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This record is about the Anne Stathom, widow of Harry Stathom, dame and sometime wife of William Massey. Stathom... dating from [1471-1483] 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 8/344/E1302
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1471-1483]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Anne Stathom, widow of Harry Stathom, dame and sometime wife of William Massey.
- Name(s)
- Stathom, Anne
- Addressees
- Council of the prince.
- Nature of request
- Stathom shows that at her marriage with William Massey certain lands were settled on her to the annual value of £40 in the towns and fields of Worsley and Hulton to have to her and her assigns for her life in allowance of all such dower as ought to come to her from the lands and tenements of William her husband. On Massey's death, his son has ousted her, and she is not of the power to sue against him by the course of the common law to her utter impoverishment. She had a privy seal directed to him for him to appear before the council at Westminster in the octave of St Hillary last, but he will not appear and is now in the prince's lordship of Chester. Stathom requests that a privy seal be directed to Geoffrey Massey commanding him to appear at Westminster at the quinzene of Easter next to answer the premises, and to do as directed by the council.
- Nature of endorsement
- [...] day of January [...].The party to appear [...].
- Places mentioned
- Worsley, Lancashire
- Hilton (Over Hulton), Lancashire
- Westminster
- Lordship of Chester.
- People mentioned
- [Edward Plantagenet], prince [of Wales]
- William Massy (Massey)
- Geoffrey Massy (Massey), knight, son and heir of William Massey.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1471-1483 on the basis that a cover note preceding this file of petitions indicates that the petitions SC 8/344/E1262-E1316B mostly date to the period 1481-1483, and nearly all appear to belong to the period 1471-1483, this latter date being the dates that Edward Plantagenet, Edward IV's eldest son, held the principality of Wales and the county of Chester. Throughout this file, the latter date range has been adopted where no evidence survives to indicate more specific dates.
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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/C9736722/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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