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Robert de Mountfort (Montfort), clerk. de Mountfort (Montfort) Robert King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/4/193

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Reference
SC 8/4/193
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Mountfort (Montfort), clerk.
Name(s)
de Mountfort (Montfort), Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
clerk
Nature of request
Mountfort shows that he had a livery of clothing granted to him for life by Badlesmere, by that lord's power, in return for his release of his rights in his inheritance from his brother William, which livery he was to take annually at the manor of Castle Combe. The livery is in arrears since Badlesmere forfeited to the king, so that he requests that the king order that he have the arrears of the livery, and should have it in the future, or that he should have his writing made to Badlesmere so that he is not disinherited.1)
Nature of endorsement
He should show that which he has of the pension, and justices should be assigned to enquire into the truth of the matter and upon the continuation of his seisin etc., and the inquisition is to be returned, and let justice be done.2) Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Castle Combe, [Wiltshire].
People mentioned
Bartholomew de Badlesmere
William de Mountfort (Montfort), late brother of the petitioner William de Chestrefeld (Chesterfield).
Note
The petition dates to 1322 as is noted in the heading in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.387. and because the petition makes reference to the fall of Bartholomew de Badlesmere.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5733
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), p.388b (no.8) (full edition of original 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. 387-415, no. 8 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060313/

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