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Margery Godwin widow of Hugh Godwin de Bridgwater. Godwin Margery King. Godwin requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/3/124

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This record is about the Margery Godwin widow of Hugh Godwin de Bridgwater. Godwin Margery King. Godwin requests... dating from [1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/3/124
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
Margery Godwin widow of Hugh Godwin de Bridgwater.
Name(s)
Godwin, Margery
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Godwin requests remedy for the delay in the matter of Philip de Columbers' disseisin of her lands, animals, goods and chattels for which the king assigned his justices to take an assize concerning the trespass, but were unable to proceed because the sheriff and bailiffs of the county were unable to bring sufficient men for the assize and inquest, by which Philip and his men remain unpunished
Nature of endorsement
The justices before whom the assize and plea concerning the removal of goods were suspended are commanded to proceed in the business with all the speed that they are able, and they should make to appear in both the assize and inquest knights and other upright and law-worthy men of those parts.
Places mentioned
Donewere (Dunwear), [Somerset]
Slape, [Somerset]
Southboure (South Bower), [Somerset]
Northboure (North Bower), [Somerset]
Bridgewater, [Somerset].
People mentioned
Hugh Godwyne (Godwin) de Bridgwater, late husband of the petitioner
Philip de Columbers.
Note
The petition is dated to 1320 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.365 for the parliament held on Monday in the octave of St Michael, 14 Edward II.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3702
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), pp.297, 470-1, 476 and 547 (commissions to justices relating to the petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.372a (no.10) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060242/

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