Catalogue description Petitioners: Bartholomew de Fanacourt (Fancourt). Name(s): de Fanacourt...

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Details of SC 8/159/7930
Reference: SC 8/159/7930
Description:
Petitioners: Bartholomew de Fanacourt (Fancourt).
Name(s): de Fanacourt (Fancourt), Bartholomew
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: [The right-hand half of this petition is entirely illegible, and the sense of the petition is difficult to recover].The petitioner requests that that are able to have the keeping of the manor of . . . as the king has seized it into his hand because of a charter . . . the petitioner and his wife having the right to the same keeping.
Nature of endorsement: He should sue before the king to have his right.
People mentioned: Piers de Bruys (Bruce); Marmeduke de Thweng; Luke . . .; Lucy [de Fanacourt (Fancourt)], wife of the petitioner; Robert de . . .; Robert, son and heir of Robert de . . .
Note: The petition is speculatively dated to 1327-? 1350 in part on the hand, and in part on the basis of the reference to the king's grandfather, probably suggesting that the petition is in Edward III's reign.
Date: [c. 1327-c. 1350]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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