Edmund de Mortimer, Earl of March. de Mortimer, Earl of March Edmund King and lords...

Petitioners

Edmund de Mortimer, Earl of March.

Name(s)

de Mortimer, Earl of March, Edmund

Addressees

King and lords of parliament.

Nature of request

Edmund, Earl of March, states that he holds the villages of Great Gransden and Woolley in Huntingdonshire of the right of his wife, which villages are of the honour of Gloucester, which is quit of toll, pontage, passage and all other customs throughout England, and has been from time immemorial; but that now there is a process in the King's Bench to distrain the tenants of these villages for a contribution towards building the bridge of Huntingdon, contrary to his franchise. He requests a remedy, and that the process be halted until another remedy is provided.

Nature of endorsement

This bill is to be sent to chancery for justice to be done on it, and the process and everything belonging to it against the earl and his wife and their tenants is to be stopped until the octave of John the Baptist next, and in the meantime the earl and his wife are to sue in discharge of themselves and their tenants.

Places mentioned

Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire

Woolley, Huntingdonshire

Huntingdon, [Huntingdonshire].

For a similar petition from the countess of Norfolk, see SC 8/129/6450

For transcript, see no.64 of PRO 31/7/109

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XIV, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1913), pp.532-3 (order issued in February 1377 to justices to stay proceedings in this case)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.177b-178a (no.11) (full edition of original petition)