John Corbet; Henry de la Pomeray, son of Henry de la Pomeray. Corbet; Pomeray John;...

Petitioners

John Corbet; Henry de la Pomeray, son of Henry de la Pomeray.

Name(s)

Corbet; Pomeray, John; Henry

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

John Corbet and Henry, son of Henry de la Pomeray, kinsmen and heirs of Roger de Vautort, state that Roger de Vautort gave the castle of Trematon, the villages of Saltash, Sutton and Tamerton, and the manors of Makerton and Calstock, with their appurtenances, to Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of Almain, and to the heirs of his body, with the reversion to Roger and his heirs in default of heirs of Richard's body, as Richard's charter clearly shows. Piers Corbert, John's brother, and Henry de la Pomeray, Henry's father, sued by petition in parliament in the time of the king's grandfather, and the petition was sent to Roger le Brabasoun and his companions, justices, where a writ was sent to the Treasurer, Chamberlains and Keeper of the Wardrobe, to inform the court of any evidence they had on behalf of the king. And thus Piers and Henry sued from parliament to parliament, but were sinfully delayed; and John and Henry have done the same in the time of the late king and of the present king, but have always been delayed; and they have sued to the Treasurer, Chamberlains and Keeper of the Wardrobe, who have said that they have informed the court of everything they have on the matter. They request that the justices before whom the business is pending be instructed to examine the record and process, and to proceed to a final judgment.

Nature of endorsement

The justices assigned to hold the king's pleas are to be ordered that, when they have examined the record and process, they are to proceed to a final determination of the matter, but that they are not to proceed to judgment without consulting the king.

Places mentioned

Trematon, [Cornwall]

Esse (Saltash), [Cornwall]

Sutton (Plymouth) [Devon]

Tamerton (King's Tamerton), [Cornwall]

Makerton (Maker), [Cornwall]

Calstock, [Cornwall].

People mentioned

Roger de Vautort

Richard [of Cornwall], Earl of Cornwall

Henry de la Pomeray, the father

Piers Corbet

Roger de Brabasoun (Brabazon), justice.

Related legal proceedings are on m.5 in KB 27/180

A document related to that petition is SC 8/18/875B

A related petition is SC 8/136/6771

A petition concerning another part of the petitioners' inheritance is SC 8/66/3253

An earlier related petition is SC 8/3/114

A related charter is SC 8/3/116

A later related petition is SC 8/68/3368

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1337-1339, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.387 (enrolment of release by Henry de Pomeray to the king and to Edward duke of Cornwall, of all his right and claim in the tenements mentioned in the petition)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1338-1340, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.15-16 (pardon to Henry of a debt of £242, in consideration of this release)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp.170-173 (full edition and later English summary of a related petition with a similar endorsement)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.438b, no. 74 (later English summary of a related petition with similar endorsement)
• 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), roll 25, appendix, no.40 (a summary and edition of related documents for an earlier related petition)