Laurence de Brok. de Brok Laurence King and council Brok shows that he has brought...

Petitioners

Laurence de Brok.

Name(s)

de Brok, Laurence

Addressees

King and council

Nature of request

Brok shows that he has brought a writ on novel disseisine against Langton and Tuchet and others that he was disseised of the manors of Finmere and Preston. Because he is without a day by the death of Tuchet by whose forfeiture the manors are now in the hand of the king. Brok requests that justice be done to him on these manors.1)

Nature of endorsement

He should come into Chancery and show his right and further there is to be done what is right to be done.2) Afterwards he came into Chancery and showed his right in this form: namely that in the time of Henry III, Laurence de Brok grandfather of Laurence, whose heir he is acquired the manors in fee, and died seised of them, after whose death they came to Hugh as son and heir; he died seised, and after his death it came to Laurence as son and heir, and he was peacefully seised until Langton and Tuchet and others of them unjustly and without judgement disseised him; and thence Henry Spigurnel, John de Cambridge and John de Shardelow or two of them were appointed to enquire into the truth of the matter in the due form, and return the inquisition, and in the meantime Tuchet's muniments are to be scrutinised for any remission that was made.

Places mentioned

Finmere, [Oxfordshire]

Preston Bisset, [Buckinghamshire]

People mentioned

Walter Langton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (Bishop of Chester)

William Tuchet

Laurence de Brok, grandfather of the petitioner

Hugh de Brok, father of the petitioner

Henry Spigurnel

John de Cantebrigg (Cambridge)

John de Shardelowe (Shardelow).

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see also SC 8/4/195

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.389a (no.11) (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. 11 (summary of references)