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Walter de Suffeld (Suffield), Joan de Suffeld (Suffield) wife of Walter de Suffeld....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/51

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Reference
SC 8/2/51
Date
[1307]
Description
Petitioners
Walter de Suffeld (Suffield), Joan de Suffeld (Suffield) wife of Walter de Suffeld.
Name(s)
de Suffeld (Suffield); de Suffeld (Suffield), Walter; Joan
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The Suffelds state that whereas they brought a writ of dower before the justices of the Bench against the abbot of Vale Royal, and they demanded of him the reasonable dower of Joan from the free tenement which belonged to Richard de Hethersett, her first husband, which tenement are in Middlesex. The abbot in the course of pleading showed a charter of the king and said that he was not able to give Joan her dower without the agreement of the king by which the plea is postponed until the king gives his consent. Walter and Joan Suffeld request a writ to the justices of the Bench to continue the plea, the charter notwithstanding.
Nature of endorsement
[Walter] should have a writ from the Chancery to the justices that they should proceed in that plea, the charter not withstanding.
People mentioned
Abbot of Vale Royal
Richard de Hedersete (Hethersett) late husband of Joan the petitioner.
Note
The petition is dated to 1307 on the basis of the dating of Rot. Parl., vol I, p. 192, dating of the memoranda roll being for the parliament at Carlisle on Wednesday in the Octave of St Hillary, 35 Edw. I.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7310
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp. 196b-197a (no. 38) (Latin transcription 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), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no. 53 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060163/

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