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Elizabeth de Bourg (Burgh), Lady of Clare, one of the heirs of Gilbert de Clare,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/35/1724

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Reference
SC 8/35/1724
Date
[1332]
Description
Petitioners
Elizabeth de Bourg (Burgh), Lady of Clare, one of the heirs of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
Name(s)
de Bourg (Burgh), Lady of Clare, Elizabeth
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Bourg shows that certain bounds were established between the towns of Weymouth which was of the inheritance of Bourg, and Melcombe which was lately of the abbot of Cerne. The people of Melcombe enter Weymouth and do not wish to suffer that Bourg's bailiffs are able to take tolls from boats arriving in the port which pertains to Weymouth, and have built houses and have clearly removed the bounds to Bourg's great disinheritance. Bourg requests that the king appoint certain men to enquire of the ancient bounds so that she is not disinherited.
Nature of endorsement
Let certain people men be assigned to enquire upon the things contained in this petition, and when the inquisition has been returned the chancellor is to call those whom he thinks are necessary, and he is to do what is right and reasonable.
Places mentioned
Weymouth, [Dorset]
Melcombe Regis, [Dorset]
People mentioned
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
Abbot of Cerne
Robert Selyman
John Trevaignan
John de Mere
Note
The petition appears to date to 1332, an inquisition being held on 14 August 1332 (CIM 1307-49, no.1383). In addition two of the three individuals named in an addenda at the bottom of the document were named in a commission of oyer and terminer to Dorset in early 1331 (CPR 1330-4, p.133).
Related material

For a related certification, see SC 8/233/11604

For another petition by Burgh see SC 8/35/1722

For a related writ, see SC 8/233/11603

For a related petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/92/4554

For a related petition, see SC 8/233/11602

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 391
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1383 (commission and inquisition concerning the dues received at Weymouth)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061923/

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