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Joan de Bridsale (Birdsall), widow of Gilbert de Birdsall. de Bridsale (Birdsall)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/17/817

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This record is about the Joan de Bridsale (Birdsall), widow of Gilbert de Birdsall. de Bridsale (Birdsall)... dating from [? 1335] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/17/817
Date
[? 1335]
Description
Petitioners
Joan de Bridsale (Birdsall), widow of Gilbert de Birdsall.
Name(s)
de Bridsale (Birdsall), Joan
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Joan, widow of Gilbert de Bridsale, states that she holds a messuage and a bovate of land in Hexthorpe near Doncaster, from which Robert de Mauley the younger has expelled her, and by his fault her goods and chattels have been lost and destroyed, to a value of 100 s. Robert previously put her in possession, on the orders of Earl Warenne, only to expel her again. She requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
She is to sue in Chancery at common law.
Places mentioned
Hexthorpe, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Doncaster, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
Gilbert de Bridsale (Birdsall), formerly chamberlain of Robert de Mauley
Robert de Maule (Mauley) the elder
Robert de Maule (Mauley) the younger
[John de Warenne], Earl Warenne (Earl of Surrey).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 525
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.410a (no.178) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060959/

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