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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Agnes Purs, widow of John Purs. Purs Agnes King and the lords of his council. Purs...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/345/E1337
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This record is about the Agnes Purs, widow of John Purs. Purs Agnes King and the lords of his council. Purs... dating from [c. 1483-c. 1500] 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 8/345/E1337
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1483-c. 1500]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Agnes Purs, widow of John Purs.
- Name(s)
- Purs, Agnes
- Addressees
- King and the lords of his council.
- Nature of request
- Purs shows that Stephens on 2 December in [...] Edward IV, late king of England, granted to the petitioner, Forster and Holbeine, to the use of the petitioner a rent of 36s. 8d. a year to be received by her from tenements in Eresjund Lane in Middlesex with right of distraint should the sum be in arrears at any of the four terms. Stephens paid part of the first payment but has refused the rest, and has since offered to pay her only 26s. 8d. and she is of no power to distrain for the sum or sue at the common law, and Stephens and Forster and Holbeine are a fellowship, and she will be utterly ruined without the king's help. She requests that the king, by advice of his council, and that the petitioner is of no power, and Stephens is learned in the law, that the king send for Stephens and compel him to do as right requires.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Middlesex.
- People mentioned
- John Purs, late husband of the petitioner
- Edmund Stephens, gentleman
- Robert Forster, gentleman
- Bristoser Holbeine
- Isabel Boteler.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1483-c. 1500 because the petition refers to events in Edward IV's reign where he is described as 'late kyng', and reference to an Edmund Stephens can be found in records edited by Williams as late as 1500 (Williams, E., Early Holborn and the Legal Quarter of London, (London, 1927), vol. I, no. 628, and vol. II, nos. 1670-71).
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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/C9736758/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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