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

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Details of SC 8/111/5505
Reference: SC 8/111/5505
Description:
Petitioners: Joan de Felton, widow of Thomas de Felton.
Name(s): de Felton, Joan
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Felton requests that she can have livery of the lands and tenements which she held jointly with her husband, and which have been seized by the king's ministers; she also requests that her husband's executors are able to have part of the substantial sum granted to her husband by Edward III and the king to acquit his debts and discharge his alms; she finally requests that she, her late husband and their heirs, executors, lands and tenement can be discharged of all other demands.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Kirton in Lindsey, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned: Thomas de Felton, late husband of the petitioner.
Note: The petition dates to c. 1381-c. 1383 as entries in the patent rolls clearly relate to this petition, and the latter may be a final resolution of matters complained of and requested here (CPR 1381-5, pp.9, 221).
Date: [c. 1381-c. 1383]
Related material:

For another petition on a related matter by the same petitioner see SC 8/111/5517

For a related petition by Thomas de Felton's executors see SC 8/111/5509

For an alternative version of this petition differently addressed see SC 8/104/5168

For another petition on a related matter by the same petitioner see SC 8/85/4215

For transcript, see no.9 of PRO 31/7/109
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 3422
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.9 (order to the escheator to remove his hand from the manor of Kirton) & p.221 (pardon to the petitioner of all sums owing to the king)

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