Isabel de Bardolf, widow of Hugh Bardolf. de Bardolf Isabel King and council. Bardolf...

Petitioners

Isabel de Bardolf, widow of Hugh Bardolf.

Name(s)

de Bardolf, Isabel

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Bardolf requests that she be reseised of her free tenement in Emsworth and Warblington, and that redress be made to her according to the tenor of Magna Carta concerning the suit of Robert Lewer who deprived her of her free tenement by means of a writ obtained by false accusation and an inquest, and despite Bardolf producing her royal charters granting the free tenements.1)

Nature of endorsement

It seems to the great council of the king that Bardolf ought to be restored to the tenements contained in the petition saving to the king his right when he will wish to speak on it, by the fact that she has shown her charters of the ancestors of the king of the same tenements that they gave to the ancestors of Bardolf, by which charters she and her ancestors have been seised of the said tenements, and not at all by illegal seizure.2) Because it is attested by W. de Airmyn that the lands, tenements and liberties were taken into the hand of the king by special order of the king, therefore coram rege et magno consilio.

Places mentioned

Emsworth, [Hampshire]

Warblington, [Hampshire].

People mentioned

Robert Lewer

W. de Airmyn.

For a later petition on the same matter see SC 8/4/191

For a related petition, see SC 8/95/4735

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.139-40 (commission of oyer and terminer concerning the same matter)
• Proceedings against the Crown (1216-1377), Ludwik Ehrlich, (, 1921), pp.247-8 (edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.298a-b (no.37) (transcription of petition on parliament roll)