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Eleanor de Seagrave, widow of Henry de Seagrave. de Seagrave Eleanor King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/3/145

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Reference
SC 8/3/145
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
Eleanor de Seagrave, widow of Henry de Seagrave.
Name(s)
de Seagrave, Eleanor
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Seagrave requests remedy concerning tenements in Billingsgate which her late husband recovered from Henry de Braundeston for a loan that Braundeston had had from him. Following her husband's death the tenements came into the king's hand because of debts that he owed the king, he having held divers offices of the king. Subsequently Braundeston, Kimbauton and Swote have conspired to fraudulently obtain the tenements by an assize of novel disseisin, depriving the king of the payment of his debt, Seagrave of her dower and the disinheritance of the heirs. She therefore requests that Kimbauton and Swote come before the king and his council to respond to her suite of this deceit, and suspend the assize otherwise Braundeston will lose the assize by default.1)
Nature of endorsement
The taking of the assize is not to be stayed, but regarding the rendering of judgement in this part, it is to be stayed until the king will have been consulted.2) The king should have the advice of the treasurer and William de Norwich.
Places mentioned
London
Billingsgate, [London]
Oxneford (Oxford), [Oxfordshire].
People mentioned
Henry de Segrave (Seagrave), late husband of the petitioner
Henry de Braundeston
James de Cobham
Roger de Kimbauton
Robert Swote, fishmonger of London
William de Norwyc (Norwich).
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.
Related material

For another petition formerly attached to this one, see SC 8/87/4322

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/3/146

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7440
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.376b-377a (no.51) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060265/

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