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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan Stoneton, widow of Richard Stoneton. Stoneton Joan [Not specified]. Stoneton...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/345/E1349
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This record is about the Joan Stoneton, widow of Richard Stoneton. Stoneton Joan [Not specified]. Stoneton... dating from [c. 1461-c. 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 8/345/E1349
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1461-c. 1483]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan Stoneton, widow of Richard Stoneton.
- Name(s)
- Stoneton, Joan
- Addressees
- [Not specified].
- Nature of request
- Stoneton complains that after her husband's death she was endowed with a third part of a certain messuage with appurtenances called Stoneton in the parish of St Clere for an annuity of 6s. 8d. for her dower to be levied, but Marke, pretending a wrongful title to the same messuage, has taken her dower away for the past 6 years contrary to the law. She only survives by the support of well-disposed people, and she requests that she can have the annuity during her life with the arrears that Marke has retained.
- Nature of endorsement
- John Stoneton against John Mark.
- Places mentioned
- St Cleer, [Cornwall]
- Liskeard, [Cornwall].
- People mentioned
- Richard Stoneton, late husband of the petitioner
- John Marke (Mark) of Liskeard.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Unsorted Miscellanea of the Exchequer (transferred July 1932).
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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/C9736770/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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