Amice Fitz Simon, widow of Richard Fitz Simon. Fitz Simon Amice King and council....

Petitioners

Amice Fitz Simon, widow of Richard Fitz Simon.

Name(s)

Fitz Simon, Amice

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Amice states that in the thirteenth year of the present king's reign, Simon Fitz Richard brought an assize of novel disseisin against her concerning the manor of Great Dunmow, and a legal process began on this, which Amice lost, through the maintenance of the earl of Hereford, to whom Simon had promised to give the manor. She requests that the king enquire into this.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.The record and process of the assize are to be brought into Chancery, and, when he has called the council, the chancellor is to consider this further etc.

Places mentioned

Great Dunmow, [Essex].

People mentioned

Simon Fitz Richard (son of Richard), valet of the earl of Hereford

[Humphrey de Bohun] earl of Hereford

Robert de Maddynglegh, justice

Humphrey de Walden, justice, steward of the earl of Hereford

John de Lachelegh.

For another petition relating to this manor, see SC 8/120/5960

For a near-duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/123/6115

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.263 (order to John le Porter, keeper of the manor of Dunmow, to assign the manor as dower to Nichola, Simon Fitz Richard's widow, and her new husband)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.398b, no.64 (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. 64 (summary of references)