Catalogue description Petitioners: Joan de Felton, wife of Thomas de Felton, knight. Name(s): de...

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Details of SC 8/21/1018
Reference: SC 8/21/1018
Description:
Petitioners: Joan de Felton, wife of Thomas de Felton, knight.
Name(s): de Felton, Joan
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: John, the wife of Thomas de Felton, asks the king to have pity on her husband, imprisoned by the king's enemies in Aquitaine, while on his service there, and requests that the Count of St Pol, imprisoned in England, might not be ransomed or set free until her husband is freed, but rather held in the same way as the enemy holds him.
Nature of endorsement: The king, on the advice of his council, will do on this matter what seems to him to be best, for justice.
Places mentioned: Aquitaine, [France].
People mentioned: Thomas de Felton, knight; Count of Saint Pol.
Note: Dated on the guard c. 1378, by reference to Carte, Catalogue, vol. II, pp. 126-129, and Devon Issues of the Exchequer, p.212. The ascription of the petition to 1387-8 in Rot. Parl., vol. III, p. 256a, is insecure.
Date: [c. 1378]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 3417
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.256a (no. 15) (full edition of original petition)

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