Bartholomew Beneit (Bennet), executor of the testament of John de Eure; Stephen de...

Petitioners

Bartholomew Beneit (Bennet), executor of the testament of John de Eure; Stephen de Eure, executor of the testament of John de Eure; John Sturmy, executor of the testament of John de Eure.

Name(s)

Beneit (Bennet); de Eure; Sturmy, Bartholomew; Stephen; John

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Bartholomew Beneit, Stephen de Eure and John Sturmy, executors of the testament of John de Eure, complain that, although they have the right to administer and execute John de Eure's testament, the escheator and other ministers of the king have seized his goods and chattels and are preventing them from executing the testament. They request a writ of Chancery to the escheator and ministers to remove their hand and to deliver the goods to the executors, so that they can execute the testament and pay the testator's debts, according to the establishment of Holy Church.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.The king has answered similar petitions that the bishop of Durham is to be ordered to enquire into, and provide information on, the manner of John de Eure's death; for which reason they should sue this reply if they wish.

People mentioned

John de Eure

Escheator [north of the Trent]

King's ministers

[Lewis de Beaumont], Bishop of Durham.

For a related petition from the bishop of Durham, see SC 8/6/275

For a related petition from Eure's widow, see SC 8/6/276

For a related petition see SC 8/106/5256

• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.253-5 (no.188) (related petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.403b, no.95 (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.95 (summary of references)