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Petitioners

Robert de Veer (Vere), earl of Oxford.

Name(s)

de Veer (Vere), earl of Oxford, Robert

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Robert de Veer shows that the manor of Aythorpe Roding has always been held of the earl and his ancestors by the service of two knights' fees. It came into the hands of the late Queen Eleanor by purchase, and, beyond the terms of her seisin, she enfeoffed Guy Ferre with it, to hold of her and her heirs, and not of the chief lordships of the fee. Thus Robert de Veer and his heirs will lose wardships, reliefs, escheats and other profits, if the charter is not amended. He requests that this be done.

Nature of endorsement

The response made to this petition in another parliament is to be examined, and the earl is to pursue the same response with J. Bush, who has the petition he presented then.

Places mentioned

Rothing Aytrop (Aythorpe Roding), [Essex].

People mentioned

Eleanor [of Castile], Queen of England

Guy Ferre

J[John] Bush.

For another, probably earlier, petition by the same petitioner on the same subject, see SC 8/10/496

For transcript, see p.143 of PRO 31/7/93

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.393-394 (grant that manor be held of petitioner and his heirs as it used to be held of his father)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.479a-b, no.110 (full edition of original document)
• The Functions of the Medieval Parliament of England, G.O. Sayles, (Hambledon Press, 1988), p.271 (no. viii) (English summary of petition)