Richard de Beausevall, proctor of the abbot of Bec-Hellouin. de Beausevall Richard...

Petitioners

Richard de Beausevall, proctor of the abbot of Bec-Hellouin.

Name(s)

de Beausevall, Richard

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

proctor of the abbot of Bec-Hellouin

Nature of request

Beausevall requests that the king order his chancellor to send a writ to Selyman and Aston to stop their commission which was obtained by the villeins of the manor of Ogbourne concerning how the manor and church were granted to the abbey of Bec-Hellouin, and what services and alms were made. Because the grant was made such a long time ago, there is no one alive who can know anything of it, and he is prepared to show the charter and confirmation when and where it pleases the council.

Nature of endorsement

He does not have any cause at all, nor does the petition advance anything by which the king ought to stop this commission.

Places mentioned

Grant Okebourn (Ogbourne), [Wiltshire].

People mentioned

Maud de Walyngford (Wallingford)

Robert Selyman

Robert de Aston.

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/11/537

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/163/8137

For a letter by the same petitioner, see SC 8/346/E1394

• Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.184 (appointment of Beausevall as proctor-general in England by the abbot); & pp.299, 347, 501, 583 (various commissions relating to the abbot's interests in Ogbourne)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.76 (no.17) (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. 73-89, no. 17 (summary of references)