Prior and convent of Newstead in Sherwood. King and council. The prior and convent...

Petitioners

Prior and convent of Newstead in Sherwood.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The prior and convent of Newstead state that the manor of Kirkby in Ashfield is charged with finding forty shillings and a quarter of wheat annually, for bread and wine for their church, and that they have been seised of this rent from time immemorial until the death in Scotland of John de Stotevill, who held the manor of the king in chief. The king seized his lands into his hands, because of the minority of the heir, and leased the manor to Thomas de Wake. The prior and convent claimed in Chancery that their rent was in arrears, and had a writ for payment to Thomas de Wake; but he refused to pay, so they sued another writ for him to state why. Then Margaret, John de Stotevill's widow, sued the king for her dower, and was granted the manor: and so they lost their suit. As Margaret was an alien, the king seized the manor into his hand, and still holds it. They request their arrears for four years and their rent in future: and a writ to that effect to Richard de Whatton, keeper of the manor.

Nature of endorsement

The inquisitions returned in Chancery and other memoranda there are to be examined. If it is found that the manor is charged with this rent, the keeper is to be ordered to pay the arrears from the time it was seized, and to pay the rent in future until etc.With regard to what is in arrears from the time of Thomas Wake, he is to sue the process of the previous writs.

Places mentioned

Novel Lieu (Newstead), [Nottinghamshire]

Schirewode (Sherwood), [Nottinghamshire]

Kirkeby en Asshefeld (Kirkby in Ashfield), [Nottinghamshire].

People mentioned

John de Stotevill

Thomas de Wake

Margaret [de Stotevill], widow of John de Stotevill

Richard de Whatton

For an earlier petition by the same house see SC 8/1/44

For a later petition by the same house see SC 8/15/708

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.414 (order to Richard de Whatton and William Bozoun, keepers of French lands in Nottinghamshire, to pay the prior and convent their rent and arrears) & p.40 (previous order, dated November 10 1323, to Thomas Wake in similar terms)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.422a, no.20 (full edition of a later copy of the original document)
• 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. 416-429, no. 20 (summary of references)