Richard de Messyng (Messing) of London. de Messyng (Messing) Richard King and council....

Petitioners

Richard de Messyng (Messing) of London.

Name(s)

de Messyng (Messing), Richard

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Richard de Messyng states that at the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist in the fourteenth year of the king's reign, John de Goldyngton leased to Richard, by his deed, his entire manor of Ringers in the vill of Terling, together with all the lands and tenements which belonged to Nicholas le Gras in Essex. This manor was purchased by John's father, William de Goldyngton, for himself and his heirs, from John de Tany and his wife Joan, for the term of Joan's life, for Richard to have and hold for that term. By virtue of this lease Richard was seised peacefully of the manor and tenements until one Geoffrey Dode, who is one of the king's men, by virtue of a commission from the king which he claims to have to seize the rebels' lands into the king's hand, seized the manor and tenements, because of John [de Goldington]'s trespass, together with his [Richard's] goods worth £40. He requests a remedy, and that justice be done to him.

Nature of endorsement

Certain of the king's faithful are to be assigned to enquire into the truth of the contents of the petition, in the presence of the guardian, etc., and, when the inquisition has been returned and the deed that he has on this has been examined, justice is to be done.

Places mentioned

London

Le Ringgers (Ringers), [Essex]

Terling, [Essex]

Essex.

People mentioned

John de Goldyngton (Goldington), so of William de Goldington

Nicholas le Gras

William de Goldyngton (Goldington), father of John de Goldington

John de Tany

Joan [de Tany], wife of John de Tany

Geoffrey Dode.

For a petition on a related matter see SC 8/14/674

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.595 (instructions to John le Porter, keeper of certain of the rebels' lands in Essex, to deliver the manor and tenements to Richard de Messyng)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.149 (no.592) (commission and inquisition ascertaining that John de Goldyngton demised the manor of Le Ringgers to Richard de Messyng)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.402a-b, no. 88 (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.88 (summary of references)