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Laurence de Tresham. de Tresham Laurence King and council. Laurence de Tresham states...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/5/228

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Reference
SC 8/5/228
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Laurence de Tresham.
Name(s)
de Tresham, Laurence
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Laurence de Tresham states that he and Master Thomas de Sedynton acquired the manor of Passenham as joint feoffees, to have and hold to them, and to Laurence's heirs, and they were in seisin, receiving the profits, between the feast of St Andrew and Christmas. Then Walter de Langeton took the manor into the king's hand, for hatred of Thomas and for greed to possess it, and he kept Thomas and Laurence out for Thomas' whole lifetime. After his death, Thomas, earl of Lancaster claimed that the manor was held of him, of his honour of Tutbury -with no mention of Laurence - and had seisin out of the king's hand. Laurence offered him his services and asked if he could be his tenant according to his purchase and right. The earl refused. Laurence initiated an assise of novel disseisin against the earl, Elias Pocheys, then escheator, and other disseisors in Northamptonshire, but when the earl ordered that his head be cut off, he did not dare to pursue his right further. The manor is now in the king's hand after the earl's death; therefore Laurence requests grace and a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.The process of how the manor was separated from the seisin of Roger, earl of Lancaster is to be examined, and when this has been done, there is to be further consultation etc.
Places mentioned
Passenham, Northamptonshire
Tutteburs (Tutbury), [Staffordshire].
People mentioned
Master Thomas de Sedynton (Saddington)
Walter de Langeton, treasurer
Thomas [of Lancaster], earl of Lancaster
Elias Pocheys, escheator
Roger, earl of Lancaster.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8193
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.395a, no.44 (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. 44 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060348/

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