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Agnes atte le Wode (Wood) de Beeley Wode (Wood) Agnes King and council. Atte le Wode...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/3/125

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Reference
SC 8/3/125
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
Agnes atte le Wode (Wood) de Beeley
Name(s)
Wode (Wood), Agnes
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Atte le Wode requests remedy because her and her son were assaulted, imprisoned and their goods and beasts taken by John de Middlemore and others. She has sued 14 writs for the return of the beasts but has been unable to recover them because they have been taken into different counties. She has no legal remedy so she requests grace for the return of the beasts, and an enquiry concerning the trespass.
Nature of endorsement
Justices are to be assigned in Chancery to hear and determine [oyer and terminer] the personal trespasses that were inflicted upon the complainant on account of her poverty etc. and the enormity of the trespasses. And concerning the complaints made of his sheriffs and ministers she should sue against them before the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, or before the justices before whom she asserts her writs were returned, and justice should be done to her.
Places mentioned
Beoley, [Worcestershire].
People mentioned
John de Middlemore
Roger [de Middlemore], brother of John de Middlemore
Ralph le Douler
William [le Douler], son of Ralph le Douler
John [atte le Wode (Wood)], son of Agnes atte le Wode
John de Bechawp (Beauchamp)
Richard Hardy.
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 224
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), p.544 (commission of oyer and terminer concerning the petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.372a (no.11) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060243/

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