Folios: 150-150v. Bedfordshire. Inspeximus of a writ. First party: Richard II. Second...

Folios: 150-150v. Bedfordshire. Inspeximus of a writ.

First party: Richard II.

Second party: At the request of Henry, earl of Derby [Henry of Bolingbroke].

Place or subject: Writ of Edward II from his great treasury and directed to the barons of the Exchequer, dated at Westminster on 1 Dec, 2 Edw. II [1308], which is in the custody of the marshal of the Exchequer: Alice, formerly the wife of William le Latymer [Latimer], has shown to the king by her petition that, whereas King John by his charter had granted to Henry de Braybrok [Braybrooke], her great-grandfather, the manor of Corby, Northants, with the hundreds and all other appurtenances, except for £4 worth of land in the same manor, to hold to Henry and his heirs of the king and his heirs at fee farm at £10 a year, to be paid to the king and his heirs at the Exchequer, and although Henry and all other ancestors of the same Alice, lords of that manor, have been accustomed successively to receive and have the amercements and other profits from their men and tenants and of other suitors of the hundred of Corby for bloodshed and trespasses made by them against the assize of bread and ale, issuing in the tourns of the sheriffs of that county within the said hundred by virtue of that gift and grant, until the same manor with the hundred and appurtenances, excepting that £4 worth of land, passed into the hands of Henry III by the death of Walter Ledet, Alice's father, whose sole heir she is, in the name of custody by reason of the minority of Alice and Christiana, her sister, coheirs of Walter, at which time the sheriffs had and received these kinds of amercements and profits in their tourns within that hundred by reason of that manor and hundred being in the king's hands, nevertheless, Alice has been impeded by the sheriffs from being able to receive those amercements and profits in the tourns of the sheriffs within that hundred from her men and tenants of that manor and from other suitors of the same hundred, just as her ancestors have been accustomed to have and receive them up to this point from the time when the manor and hundred had been restored to her in her share of the inheritance of Walter, her father, by her grandfather, and she is still impeded, to her great damage and her clear disinheritance. Because Alice has entreated the king to provide a suitable remedy, the king has commanded that, once the charter has been inspected and her case has been heard in this matter, and the truth has been inquired into more fully, if it will be necessary, the barons of the Exchequer are to cause full and swift justice to be done for her.

County: Northamptonshire.

Additional people: Witnessed by J. Cassy.

Dated at Westminster.

14 May 15 Ric II.