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Dame Rose Mountford. Mountford Rose King. Mountford states that it was found by inquisition...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/346/E1412
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/346/E1412
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1399]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Dame Rose Mountford.
- Name(s)
- Mountford, Rose
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Mountford states that it was found by inquisition taken by Spyne that Thomas de Tanworth had enfeoffed Fulwode and others with certain lands and tenements with appurtenances to the value of £10 per annum which he had in Tanworth and Aspley Green to the intent that Fulwode and the others would give them in mortmain to the church of Tanworth for two chaplains to sing divine service in the church forever without licence of the king, and by virtue of which the king was seised of the lands and tenements and granted the same to Swette for the term of his life, which he has given or leased to Mountford. She requests that she be granted a licence to amortise the lands and tenements with other lands and tenements to the value of 20s per annum in the manner as was supposed by the inquisition without making a fine to the king for the alms of Dame Blanche, mother of the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- Tanworth, Aspley.
- Places mentioned
- Warwickshire
- Henley in Arden, Warwickshire]
- Tanworth, [Warwickshire]
- Aspolee (Aspley Heath), [Warwickshire].
- People mentioned
- Guy Spyne (Spyneye), late escheator of Warwickshire
- Thomas de Toneworth (Tanworth)
- John Fulwode
- John Swette
- Blanche, [duchess of Lancaster] and mother of the king.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1399 as the petition is clearly early in the reign of Henry IV, with reference being made to Blanche, the king's mother, and Guy Spyne, the former escheator of Warwickshire, referred to in the petition, served for only a month or so into Henry's reign, being replaced in October of that year.
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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/C9736836/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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