? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ, dated at Chippenham on 20 October 1325, from...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

Copy of a writ, dated at Chippenham on 20 October 1325, from Edward II to his treasurer and chamberlains requesting that they examine the rolls of John de Reygate and his companions, justices appointed to hold assizes in Nottinghamshire in the reign of Edward I, and send him any information they find on the record and process of an assize of novel disseisin held at Bolham between the prior of Worksop and John Vescy, William de Buggethorp, John Thorald, and Constance the widow of Henry de Almaine, concerning tenements in Gringley.Copy of the assize, held at Bultham in Nottinghamshire on the Tuesday after the feast of St Luke in the fourth year of Edward I's reign before John de Reygate and W. de Northburgh [missing except for title, due to damage to petition].

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Chippenham, [Wiltshire]

Bultham (Bolham), [Nottinghamshire]

Gringley on the Hill, [Nottinghamshire].

People mentioned

Edward II, king of England

Edward I, king of England

Treasurer and chamberlains

John de Reygate (Reigate), justice

W. de Northburgh, justice

Prior of Worksop

John Vescy

William de Buggethorp (Bugthorpe)

John Thorald

Constance [de Bierne (Bearn)] the widow of Henry de Almaine

Henry de Allemannia (Almaine).

For another petition on the same matter see SC 8/158/7873

For a later petition on same matter see SC 8/8/400

For a related petition see SC 8/79/3903

For the petition with which this writ was probably formerly enclosed, see SC 8/8/399C

For a copy of the grant of the mill probably formerly enclosed with this writ, see SC 8/8/399B

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.197 (order to the keeper of the manors of Wheatley and Gringley, to have the mill replaced where it was before it was moved, and to cause the prior to have the suit of the men of Gringley pertaining to the mill, and let them grind their corn there as previously)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.284 (various documents relating to the case up to January 1331)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.440, no.42 (edition of a later copy of an earlier related petition)