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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Joan de Besilles, widow of Edward de Besilles. de Besilles Joan King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/33/1633
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/33/1633
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Joan de Besilles, widow of Edward de Besilles.
- Name(s)
- de Besilles, Joan
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Besilles shows that she requested at the last parliament held at Westminster that the king deliver to her the keeping of the manor of Woodhill which was the inheritance of her husband and which pertains to her for the maintenance of her child because the manor is held of the king in chief by the service of for barbed arrows, and is a petty serjeanty, and which does not give wardship. She was answered that she should sue before the treasurer and barons and they would do her justice, and since then she has sued from term to term showing the charter that shows the manor to be held of the king by that service, the king being seised of the service, and in similar cases he has removed his hand. She has been delayed until now and requests remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- This matter is to de discussed before the earls, barons and clerks of Chancery, and the Great Charter is to be viewed there.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Woodhill, Wiltshire.
- People mentioned
- Edward de Besilles, late husband of the petitioner.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to the parliament held at Carlisle in January 1307 (Wednesday in the octave of St Hillary, 35 Edw. I), when a memorandum was enrolled which outlined Besilles' position and ordered a remedy (Rot. Parl. Vol. I, p.214a-b (no.100). This receives further confirmation by the writ to the escheator issued on 22 March 1307 (CCR 1302-7, p.492).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 1243
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.492 (writ ordering the escheator to deliver the manor to Besilles)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.214a-b (no.100) (memorandum outlining the earlier petition and ensuing process with resolution in accordance with the writ to the escheator)
- 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), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.124 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061830/
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