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Mary de Saint Pol, Countess of Pembroke. de Saint Pol, Countess of Pembroke Mary...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/510

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Reference
SC 8/11/510
Date
[1328]
Description
Petitioners
Mary de Saint Pol, Countess of Pembroke.
Name(s)
de Saint Pol, Countess of Pembroke, Mary
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The countess holds the castle of Thorpe Waterville by gift of the king, however Holland continually sues against her, and wants a writ to oust her from the castle. She requests that no writ be granted to him or any other by which she can be ousted without her being summoned in court by due process according to the due process and custom of the realm.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Thorpe Waterville, [Northamptonshire].
People mentioned
Robert de Holland (Holand).
Note
The petition is dated to 1328 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.13 which records that this is from a Hale manuscript of petitions in parliament of 2 Edward III. The petition cannot be any later than the 6 May 1328 when a writ to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to supersede his earlier writ taking Thorpe Waterville into the king's hands was issued in response to a petition.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6493
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.192 (writ ordering various sheriffs to take the former Holland lands into the king's hands, and to deliver them to Holland) & p.281 (writ ordering the sheriff of Northamptonshire to supersede the previous writ) & pp.581-2 (bonds, an indenture and a letter concerning Saint Pol and Matilda, widow of Robert de Holland)
  • Mary de Sancto Paulo, Foundress of Pembroke College, Cambridge, H. Jenkinson, (, 1915), pp.438-9 (edition of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.27b (no.47) (full edition of a later copy of the 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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 13-30, no. 47 (summary of references)
Record URL
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