Adam de Keresey; Joan de Keresey, wife of Adam de Keresey. de Keresey; de Keresey...

Petitioners

Adam de Keresey; Joan de Keresey, wife of Adam de Keresey.

Name(s)

de Keresey; de Keresey, Adam; Joan

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The Kereseys show that whereas they have impleaded John de Ferrers and Hawise his wife of the manor of Alvescot before Ralph de Hengham and his colleagues, which manor Henry de la Mare died seised in his lordship as of fee, Joan being Henry's kinswoman and heir. John de Ferrers and Hawise in pleading said that the current king gave the manor to Robert de Muscogros and his heirs, and that they are seised of the same by right and the inheritance of Hawise who was the daughter of Robert. John de Ferrers and Hawise showed their royal charter and said that they could not answer without the king by which the parties were quit and without a day. The Kereseys request that the king, if it pleases him order the sheriffs to proceed with the plea according to the law and usage of the realm, the charter notwithstanding, so that their right is not further delayed, or Joan disinherited.

Nature of endorsement

If the charter contains warranty then proceedings are to be suspended, and if not, then they are to proceed, and the justices are to be so commanded by a writ of Chancery.

Places mentioned

Alvescote (Alvescot), Oxfordshire.

People mentioned

John de Ferrers

Hawise [de Ferrers], wife of John de Ferrers

Ralph de Hengham

Henry de la Mare

Robert de Muscogros.

For another petition relating to this case, see SC 8/343/16183

• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp. 145-6 (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.170a (no.94) (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. 241 (edition of petition)