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Margery Colpeper (Colpepper), widow of Thomas Colpepper. Colpeper (Colpepper) Margery...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/15/712

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This record is about the Margery Colpeper (Colpepper), widow of Thomas Colpepper. Colpeper (Colpepper) Margery... dating from [? 1327] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/15/712
Date
[? 1327]
Description
Petitioners
Margery Colpeper (Colpepper), widow of Thomas Colpepper.
Name(s)
Colpeper (Colpepper), Margery
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Margery Colpeper states that Despenser took the manor of Bayhall into the king's hand because of Thomas Colpeper's forfeiture, the manor was found to be her right by an inquisition with the result that the king retained the manor by force and the abetment of Despenser paying Margery 12 marks for her life. The ministers have let the houses fall down and be roofless to her great damage, and have not paid the rent according to the covenants made between the king and her. She requests that she have the manor and she will deliver the charter for the rent to the king's council.
Nature of endorsement
It is answered elsewhere.
Places mentioned
La Bayehall (Bayhall), Kent.
People mentioned
Thomas Colpeper (Colpepper), late husband of the petitioner
Hugh le Despenser, the son.
Note
A petition that is likely to date to early in the reign of Edward III as the petition is again less than favourable to Hugh le Despenser the younger. It seems unlikely that it dates to 1324 as the guard suggests, as this date seems somewhat misleading and is led by the multitude of references that survive in CIM 1307-49, and in CCR 1323-7.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/99/4911

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1419
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.389a (no.62) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060853/

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