Agnes de Eure, widow of John de Eure. de Eure; de Eure Agnes; John King and council....

Petitioners

Agnes de Eure, widow of John de Eure.

Name(s)

de Eure; de Eure, Agnes; John

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Agnes, widow of John de Eure, states that after his death his lands were seized into the king's hand by the escheator and other ministers of the king appointed to do this, and they remain there; but some of these lands were purchased by Agnes jointly with her husband, some by fines levied in the king's court before the justices- namely the manor of Stokesley with its appurtenances and the manor of Easby, in Yorkshire - and some by another purchase - Butyford in the bishopric of Durham, and Lynemouth in Northumberland, which were purchased by charter of joint feoffment. She requests delivery of these lands, together with their issues in the meantime.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.She is to show her charters and fines in Chancery, and justice is to be done there.Afterwards it was found by inquisition made on this and returned in chancery that Agnes was jointly enfeoffed with John her late husband of the tenements contained in the petition, and that she continued her seisin of them with him until his death. Therefore the keepers of the lands etc. are to be ordered to deliver them to her, to hold according to the form of the aforesaid feoffments, saving the right of the king and of all others etc. And she is to have the issues etc.

Places mentioned

Stokesley, [North Riding of] Yorkshire

Eseby (Easby), [North Riding of] Yorkshire

Butyford [unidentified], [County Durham]

Lynmeu (Lynemouth), [Northumberland].

People mentioned

John de Eure

Escheator [north of the Trent].

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

For a related petition see SC 8/106/5256

For a related petition, by John de Eure's executors, see SC 8/6/274

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.468 (orders to John de Kilvynton, keeper of certain lands in the king's hand between the rivers Tees and Ouse in Yorkshire, to remove the king's hand from certain listed lands to which Agnes' title has been established, and to restore the issues to her)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.121 (no.490) (commission and inquisition discovering that Agnes was jointly enfeoffed in the manors)
• 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.94 (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.94 (summary of references)