Floria de Belhous (Bellhouse) widow of Thomas de Bellhouse. de Belhous (Bellhouse)...

Petitioners

Floria de Belhous (Bellhouse) widow of Thomas de Bellhouse.

Name(s)

de Belhous (Bellhouse), Floria

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Belhous states that whereas she holds the manor of Ramsden paying per annum at the Exchequer the true value by extent for the debt which Thomas de Bellhouse, late her husband, owed for his time as sheriff of Cambridgeshire, which manor she purchased jointly with her husband. She requests remedy in that the extent valuation be moderated or the debt be payable in instalments so that she has sufficient sustenance for herself and her children as she has been so troubled by the debts since the death of her husband that she has not been able to support herself and her children without some grace.

Nature of endorsement

Belhous should have a writ from Chancery to the treasurer and Exchequer that they are to view her charter of joint feoffment, and they are to do what is right and so far as it is in accordance with usage in the realm. This is to be done with the counsel of the justices.

Places mentioned

Rammesden (Ramsden Bellhouse), [Essex]

Essex.

People mentioned

Thomas de Belhous (Bellhouse), Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, late husband of the petitioner.

For another petition from the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/316/E235

For the subsequent mandate to the barons of the Exchequer, see m.38d in E 368/75

For a related petition from the petitioner's son, see SC 8/83/4133

For the subsequent mandate to the barons of the Exchequer, see m.16 in E 159/78

• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp. 105-6 (no.178) (Latin summary and full edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.165b (no.61) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 184 (edition of petition)