Roger de Bavent. de Bavent Roger King and council. Roger de Bavent states that he...

Petitioners

Roger de Bavent.

Name(s)

de Bavent, Roger

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Roger de Bavent states that he brought a writ of entry returnable before the justices of King's Bench in the twelfth year of the king's reign, concerning the manor of Upton Scudamore with its appurtenances. He pursued his plea until Piers came into court and put himself on the country on the grounds that Walter his father had not disseised Piers de Scudamore, Roger's grandfather. The plea continued in court, in order to summon a jury, as appears from the record and process of the plea pending before William de Bereford, and his companions, justices of the King's Bench. This manor is now in the king's hand, through Piers' forfeiture. Roger requests that the king order that his right in the manor be enquired into and tried, according to the plea between him and Piers, so that he is not disinherited through the forfeiture.

Nature of endorsement

Piers is in prison; therefore he is to await his release.

Places mentioned

Uptone Escudemor (Upton Scudamore), Wiltshire.

People mentioned

Piers [de Escudemor (Scudamore)] son of Walter de Scudamore

Walter de Escudemor (Scudamore)

Piers de Escudemor (Scudamore), grandfather of the petitioner

William de Bereford, justice of the King's Bench.

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/32/1562

For another petition relating to the petitioner SC 8/13/630

For a related document see SC 8/165/8232

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.408a, no.125 (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.125 (summary of references)