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Catherine the Beysyn, widow of Robert the Beysyn of Hughley. Beysyn Catherine King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/367

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Reference
SC 8/8/367
Date
[1324-1325]
Description
Petitioners
Catherine the Beysyn, widow of Robert the Beysyn of Hughley.
Name(s)
Beysyn, Catherine
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Catherine, widow of Robert the Beysyn, states that her husband sold various tenements in Hughley to Walter Beysyn, who gave them to John de Lacy. He died, and his heir came into the wardship of Roger le Mortymer the nephew, and through his forfeiture, into that of the king. She requests her dower of the tenements which her husband sold, according to reason and the law of the land.
Nature of endorsement
Certain faithful people are to be appointed by writ of Chancery to inquire into whether Robert the Beysyn was seised of these tenements as of fee after he married Catherine, and into the manner and cause of the tenements' coming into the king's hand, and into other circumstances concerning this business. And they are to hold the inquisition in Chancery as soon as possible etc. And what is just is then to be done.
Places mentioned
Hugle (Hughley), Shropshire.
People mentioned
Robert the Beysyn, late husband of the petitioner
Walter Beysyn
John de Lacy
Roger le Mortymer the nephew.
Note
Date given on the evidence of Rot. Parl. JRS Phillips (PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337) says that these petitions probably all do belong to 18 Edward II, although there is no indication that they were presented either at the non-parliamentary assembly of October 1324 or the parliament of June 1325.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 322
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.423b, no.27 (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. 27 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060491/

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