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Joan Oldcastell (Oldcastle), widow of John Oldcastell Oldcastell (Oldcastle) Joan...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1406

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Reference
SC 8/29/1406
Date
[1422]
Description
Petitioners
Joan Oldcastell (Oldcastle), widow of John Oldcastell
Name(s)
Oldcastell (Oldcastle), Joan
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Joan, widow of John Oldcastell, states that she held the manor of Burnham jointly with her former husband Robert de Hemenhale, and that it was lost by the forfeiture of her later husband, John Oldcastell, and then granted by Henry V first to John Rodenhale and then to Lewis de Robessard. She also states that she sued two petitions to Henry V for restitution of this manor, and that he ordered his Chancellor to do justice to her, but that each time the matter was ended by the death of one of the other parties. She asks the king now to ask his Chancellor to do justice to her, that she might have restitution of the manor.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Cooling, Kent
Wortham, [Suffolk]
Brunham (Burnham), Norfolk
Suffolk
Westminster
Polsted Hall, [Norfolk]
Loddon, Norfolk
Middlesex
Walsingham, Norfolk
Meloun (Melun), [Isle de France, France]
People mentioned
John Oldcastell (Oldcastle), Lord Cobham, knight
John Muriel, parson of Wortham
Robert [de Hemenhale (Hempnalls)], knight
Ralph de Hemenhale (Hempnalls), knight, father of Robert de Hemenhale
John de la Pool, knight, father of Joan Oldcastell
William [de Hemenhale (Hempnalls)], son of Robert and Joan de Hemenhale
Ralph de Hemenhale (Hempnalls) of Suffolk, esquire, kinsman of William de Hemenhale
Thomas [de Hemenhale (Hempnalls)], father of Ralph de Hemenhale
Andrew Botiller (Butler), knight, Escheator of Norfolk
John Rodenhale, knight
Thomas [Rodenhale], son of John Rodenhale
John Alderford, Escheator of Norfolk
Elizabeth Rodenhale, daughter of John Rodenhale
Anne Rodenhale, daughter of John Rodenhale
Louis de Robbessart (Robesart), knight
Henry [V], King of England
Note
The copy of the petition printed in Rot. Parl. vol. V pp.401a-403a (no. 1) has an endorsement: 'It was agreed in the parliament held on the Monday before the feast of St Martin, in the first year of the reign of King Henry, the sixth since the conquest, with the assent of the lords present in the same, that this petition should be sent into the King's chancery and that the Chancellor of England for the time being should do justice to the supplicant names in this petition, on and for the matters contained in the same, as the law of the land demands.'As is clear from this endorsement, this petition is from the November parliament of 1422 (1 Henry VI).CPR 1422-9 pp.90-91, presumably a result of it, is dated at Westminster, 4 January 1423, as is piece no.257A of C 81/672.CCR 1422-9 pp.403-4, dated at Westminster, 1 May 1428, and SC 8/29/1405, show that this matter did not end here.
Related material

For a later petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/84/4197

An earlier petition from Joan on the same subject is SC 8/29/1407

An order to the Chancellor to do justice, resulting from the petition and formerly enclosed with it, is no.257A of C 81/672

For a later petition from Joan and her husband on the same subject is SC 8/29/1405

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6402
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429 , (Public Record Office, 1901), pp.90-91 (commission to enquire into Joan's rights in the manor of Burnham) & p.487 (exemplification, at his request, of letters patent granting the manor of Burnham to Louis de Robbessart)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.401a-403a (no.1) (full edition of another copy of original petition, with endorsement) & pp.397b-398b (no.10) (full edition of a later petition on the same subject)
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