Margaret Scharnesfeld (Sarnesfield), widow of Nicholas Sarnesfield, knight. Scharnesfeld...

Petitioners

Margaret Scharnesfeld (Sarnesfield), widow of Nicholas Sarnesfield, knight.

Name(s)

Scharnesfeld (Sarnesfield), Margaret

Addressees

Commons in parliament.

Nature of request

Scharnesfeld states that Richard II granted to her husband by his letters patent at their marriage the manor and town of Helston of which they were seised. After her husband's death she remained seised and let the manor and borough at farm to Wilcotes and Frankleyn for their lives with right of re-entry if the rent was in arrears. Following Wilcotes' death the rent fell into arrears and Scharnesfeld re-entered ousting Frankleyn. Afterwards Arundel conspired to have a commission held before his own men which found that Frankleyn had died seised of the manor and borough. Scarnesfeld challenged this, but the matter is pending in the Bench during which time Tryake and Penpons have the manor and borough at fee farm to the great mischief of Scharnesfeld. She requests that the prayers of the commons be heard in this parliament and that she be granted her nisi prius, and still she is not able to have it, and she requests from the duke of Gloucester that her nisi prius be accepted without further delay.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Helston, [Cornwall]

Kerrier hundred, Cornwall.

People mentioned

Nicholas Scarnesfeld (Sarnesfield), knight, husband of the petitioner

Richard II, King of England

Henry IV, King of England

Henry V, King of England

John Wilcotes, esquire

Thomas Frankleyn (Franklin), clerk of John Wilcotes

John Horystome

John Arundell (Arundel) of Trerys, knight

Robert Tryake, brother-in-law of John Arundell

Richard Penpons

[Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester.

For a slightly later petition by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/26/1259

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429 , (Public Record Office, 1901), p.33 (inspeximus and confirmation of charters and earlier inspeximus and letters patent of the Sarnesfelds)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. II, 1429-1436, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.107 (grant for life to Margaret Sarnesfeld of the manor and borough referring to her earlier expulsion)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.384a-b (no.1) (transcription of original petition)