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William Latimer, batchelor. Latimer William King and council. Latimer states that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/518

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SC 8/11/518
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
William Latimer, batchelor.
Name(s)
Latimer, William
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Latimer states that Maud Buteturte gave to him and his wife the manor of Chenies from her inheritance. Following Maud's death, they were ousted by Bereford by colour of his office. Latimer requests that the king grant, for his service, that which he is by right able to give, to hold to Latimer and his wife according to the form of Maud's gift.
Nature of endorsement
It pleases the king that the manor of Chenies with the appurtenances of which the petition makes mention are to be given to Latimer and his wife and to the heirs from their bodies begotten, so that if they die etc. that the manor should return to the king and his heirs, and this for the service that Latimer has made and will make to the king, and upon this he should have his charter.
Places mentioned
Iselhamstede (Chenies), [Buckinghamshire].
People mentioned
Maud [Butetort (Buteturte)], widow of John Buteturte
John Butetort (Buteturte), late husband of Maud Buteturte
Elizabeth [Latimer], wife of the petitioner, and daughter of Maud Buteturte
Simon de Bereford.
Note
The petition is dated to 1330 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.31 which records that this is from a Hale manuscript of petitions in parliament of 4 Edward III at Westminster after the feast of St Katherine (25 November).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4787
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.31 (grant to Latimer and his wife)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.125 (grant for life of the manor to Bereford) & p.336 (grant in fee simple of the manor to Bereford) & p.336 (licence for Latimer and his wife to acquire lands from Maud Buteturte)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.41a (no.49) (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. 31-51, no. 49 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060645/

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