Robert de Neville; Ankaret de Neville wife of Robert de Neville. de Neville; de Neville...

Petitioners

Robert de Neville; Ankaret de Neville wife of Robert de Neville.

Name(s)

de Neville; de Neville, Robert; Ankaret

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The Nevilles state that Ankaret and her first husband, William le Botiller (Butler) were seised for a long time in their lordship as of fee of a piece of land in Doddington pertaining to their manor of Doddington which is a free tenement of Ankaret, until Creting, Goch, and Griffith ap Ievan late bailiffs of the late Queen Eleanor's manor of Overton at their own will and without reasonable cause ejected them from it, and the piece of land remains even now in the king's hand. William le Botiller (Butler) whilst prosecuting his and Ankaret's right died. The Nevilles request that right be done to them for the land; that previously in the time of the king's father a writ ordered an enquiry of these matters, however the writ was not issued by the time of the king's death, so that the Nevilles request a similar writ as before to be sent anew to the justice of Chester and another.

Nature of endorsement

And he requests what justice that the king will wish to grant him associated to the current justiciar.

Places mentioned

Doddington, [Shropshire]

Overton, [Shropshire].

People mentioned

William le Botiller (Butler), late husband of Ankaret the petitioner

Adam de Cretynggs (Creting), late bailiff of the manor of Overton

Karenwyt Gogh(Goch), late bailiff of the manor of Overton

Griffith Abyeuan(ap Ievan), late bailiff of the manor of Overton.

For the copy of a writ formerly enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/2/63A

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.279a (part of no.31) (full edition of a later copy of this petition)
• 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. I, pp. 273-280, no. 31 (summary of references)