Margaret de Hoylaund (Hoyland) widow of John de Hoyland. de Hoylaund (Hoyland) Margaret...

Petitioners

Margaret de Hoylaund (Hoyland) widow of John de Hoyland.

Name(s)

de Hoylaund (Hoyland), Margaret

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Hoylaund states that whereas John de Hoyland was collector of tenths and sixths in Lincolnshire and on account remained in debt to the king in a great sum of money, and one parcel of John de Hoyland's land came into Hoyland's hands as a strange acquisition, whilst the remainder of the lands are in the hand of Adam de Welle. The sheriff of Lincolnshire distrained Margaret in the parcel of land and levied the debt from her, but he did not wish to distrain Adam de Welle in the remainder of John de Hoyland's lands because the king by a writ under the targe ordered the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that Adam de Welle was not to be distrained in those lands for the debt.[The writ is then recited whereby the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer are instructed by the king not to distrain Adam de Welle in those lands for which he has a charter to that effect, and that the debt is to be levied from the other lands which John de Hoyland held at the time when he owed the debts into whomsoever's hands they will have come. Given 18 March, 32nd year of the reign.]The treasurer and barons of the Exchequer are ordered by a writ of Chancery that they should enquire of the lands which John de Hoyland held when he was a debtor of the king, and who holds the land; both Hoylaund and the others are to be charged in proportion to the land they hold. But because the petition did not mention, the writ notwithstanding, that each of them should be charged in proportion to their holding the chancellor and barons of the Exchequer did not wish to act for which Hoyland requests remedy.

Nature of endorsement

The sheriff of Lincolnshire is ordered by a writ of Chancery that he enquire which of the lands and tenements which were John de Hoyland's came to Adam de Welle, and to Hoylaund, what the value of each portion is each year, and which debts are owed by summons of the Exchequer from the tenants of the lands. The sheriff is to return the inquisition before the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer in the morrow of the Ascension. In the meantime the sheriff is not to distrain Hoylaund except for the proportion of the debt concerning the lands and tenements that she holds. A writ is to be sent to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that when they have inspected the inquisition they are to apportion the debt according to the proportion of the lands and tenements which Hoylaund holds, so that she is not distrained except for the proportion owing from her lands. The residue of the debt concerning the portion held by Adam de Welle is to be suspended until the king states his will.

Places mentioned

Lincolnshire.

People mentioned

John de Hoylaund (Hoyland) late husband of the petitioner

Adam de Welle.

For an earlier related petition, see SC 8/266/13272

For the mandate to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to exempt Adam de Welle from the distraint, see m.6 in E 159/79

For the mandate to the barons of the Exchequer as a result of this earlier petition, see m.38d in E 368/75

For the king's mandate to the treasurer and barons of exchequer concerning petition, see m.13d in E 159/80

For the mandate to the barons of the Exchequer as result of this earlier petition see m.16 in E 159/78

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.430 (writ concerning the dower of Hoyland); p.488 (writ to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer in accordance with petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp. 205b-206a (no. 78) (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. 100 (full edition and translation)