Thomas de la Bere. Bere Thomas King and council. Haselbere (Haselbury Plucknett),...

Petitioners

Thomas de la Bere.

Name(s)

Bere, Thomas

Addressees

King and council.

Places mentioned

Haselbere (Haselbury Plucknett), [Somerset].

Nature of request

Thomas de la Bere states that ten years ago he pleaded with the king in a scire facias concerning half the manor of Haselbury Plucknett, on the issue of the country, and he has been adjourned from term to term without deliverance and greatly improverished by this. He asks that he might have deliverance, and that, because he is very poor, the inquest might be held in the country by a writ of nisi prius, by the best people of the country.

Nature of endorsement

It is to be done before the justices of assize.He is to have a writ on this.

For a related petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/145/7241

• Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. II, Hen III and Edw I, 1257-1300, (Public Record Office, 1906), pp.262-263 (grant of this manor to Alan de Plogenet by Edward I)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XI, 1360-1364, (Public Record Office, 1910), pp.506-7 (order to the Sheriff of Somerset not to intermeddle further with the half of the manor of Haselbury Plucknett which Sibyl, late wife of Alan de Plogenet held in dower, restoring to Thomas de la Bere the issues taken from it)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XII, 1364-1368, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.132 (order to the Sheriff to remove the king's hand, and not to meddle further with this manor, lately taken into the king's hand) & PP.414-415 (grant of the manor to Ingram de Coucy, Earl of Bedford, and his wife)
• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. VI, Edw III, 1347-1356, (Public Record Office, 1922), pp.361 (grant to Thomas, son of Richard de la Bere, of the keeping of the half of the manor of Haselbury Plucknett which Sibyl, late wife of Alan de Plogenet held in dower, to hold for as long as it shall remain in the king's hand) & 378 (order to the Escheator of Somerset to take this half-manor into the king's hand, as a plea is pending between the king and Thomas de la Bere concerning it)
• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. VII, Edw III, 1356-1368, (Public Record Office, 1923), p.318 (order to the Sheriff to seize this half manor back into the king's hand as there was an error in the taking of the inquisition on which this order was based)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IX, 1350-1354, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.185 (inspeximus of a charter of Edward I granting the manor of Haselbury Plucknett to Alan de Plogenet and his heirs, and confirmation of the same to Thomas de la Bere, kinsman and heir of Alan, and his heirs) & P.338 (Commission to inquire whether Alan de Plogenet held of the king in chief and died without an heir)