Catalogue description Petitioners: Agnes Marmyon (Marmion), widow of William Marmyon. Name(s): Marmyon...

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Details of SC 8/126/6263
Reference: SC 8/126/6263
Description:
Petitioners: Agnes Marmyon (Marmion), widow of William Marmyon.
Name(s): Marmyon (Marmion), Agnes
Addressees: King and Lords in Parliament.
Nature of request: Agnes, widow of William Marmyon, requests that the manors of Galby and Cold Newton be restored to her. She states that she held the manors by virtue of an enfeoffment with her husband from Airmyn and Palmer, but following her husband's death, John Marmyon and others came with an armed band and unlawfully took possession.
Nature of endorsement: Let this petition be sent to the Chancery, and the chancellor shall summon the parties, and examine the matter and the reasons and allegations of both parties, and with the authority of Parliament he will do as reason and right demands.
Places mentioned: Galby, Leicestershire; Newton (Cold Newton), Leicestershire; Billesdon, [Leicestershire]; Skeffington, [Leicestershire]; Kibworth Beauchamp, [Leicestershire].
People mentioned: William Marmyon (Marmion), late husband of the petitioner; William Airmyn, knight; William Palmer; John Marmyon (Marmion); John de Skeffyngton (Skeffington); Richard de Skeffyngton (Skeffington); John Kent; William Tailliour (Taylor) of Billesdon; Robert Peyto of Skeffington; Robert Smyth of Kibworth.
Note: Dated on the guard to? c. 1394, but no evidence cited.
Date: [? c. 1394]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 5540
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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