Richard de Playz (Plays), son of Richard de Plays. de Playz (Plays) Richard King...

Petitioners

Richard de Playz (Plays), son of Richard de Plays.

Name(s)

de Playz (Plays), Richard

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Playz shows that his kinsman Ralph came into the wardship of Edward I by his minority, and the king leased the manors to Queen Eleanor until he came of age. However he died and the lands came to Giles his brother, and during his minority Queen Eleanor leased them to Christine de Marish, so that when he proved his age some of the manors were in her seisin. Both Giles and his son Richard sued by petition and by writ to no avail, and in the meantime Marish died so that the lands came into the hand of Edward I. Finally in response to further petitions Edward III in his first year ordered by his writ that the matter be enquired into, but Richard, the petitioner's father died before the writ could be executed, so that he requests remedy that he make and clarify his right which was begun before.

Nature of endorsement

Because it is alleged by this petition that the process had begun concerning the manors and continued in the time of the king's progenitors as well as during his own time, and the process was discontinued by the death of one or other of the parties, this business is to be shown to the king so he might speak his will on it.

Places mentioned

Langley Marish, [Buckinghamshire]

Wyrardesbury (Wraysbury), [Buckinghamshire]

Buckinghamshire

Ireland.

People mentioned

Ralph de Playz (Plays), kinsman of the petitioner

Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England

Giles de Playz (Plays), brother and heir of Ralph de Plays

Christine de Mareys (Marish)

Robert de Ratford, justice

Henry Spygenel (Spigurnel), justice

Richard [de Playz (Plays)], son and heir of Giles de Plays, father of the petitioner

John Hotham, Bishop of Ely, Chancellor of England

Isabella of France, Queen of England.

For a near duplicate of that petition see SC 8/20/974

For a related document, see no. 19257 in C 81/328

For a near-duplicate of this petition see SC 8/239/11911

For another petition from the petitioner's son on this matter see SC 8/143/7118

For a related petition from the petitioner's son see SC 8/20/969

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.184b-185a (no.42) (full edition of a later copy of 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), parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 45 (summary of petition)