Katherine le Conestable (Constable), widow of Simon le Conestable. Conestable (Constable)...

Petitioners

Katherine le Conestable (Constable), widow of Simon le Conestable.

Name(s)

Conestable (Constable), Katherine

Addressees

King and council

Nature of request

Conestable shows that she granted the manor of Whisby to the king by fine in his court. Weston, the king's bailiff assigned to take seisin of the manor contended that certain lands in Grimsby and elsewhere were appurtenant to the manor, though they had been purchased by Conestable and her late husband and seized them, and they were afterwards granted to the abbot of Meaux. She has brought a writ of novel disseisine whereby the abbot showed his royal charter, and she could have nothing by her writ except by suing the king. Following this in the parliament at Lincoln Hegham and Gloucester were ordered to enquire of this, but Conestable has been long delayed. She requests that it be ordered to the justices inform on this thing, and if they cannot others be assigned who are able to do so, and that the jurors are distrained since she has been delayed many times by their default.

Nature of endorsement

Let William de Carleton be assigned in the place of the escheator, thus that he and Hegham should enquire in the previous form.

Places mentioned

Whisby, Lincolnshire

Grant Grymesby (Grimsby), [Lincolnshire]

Cle (Old Clee), [Lincolnshire]

Waltham, [Lincolnshire]

Brigsley, [Lincolnshire]

Meaux, [East Riding of Yorkshire]

Nicole (Lincoln), [Lincolnshire].

People mentioned

Simon le Conestable (Constable), late husband of the petitioner

Thomas de Weston, Bailiff of the king

Abbot of Meaux

Roger de Hegham

Walter de Gloucestre (Gloucester)

William de Carleton (Carlton).

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/269/13418