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Piers Corbet. Corbet Piers King and council 1) Corbet complains of Bray that he took...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/40/1997

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Reference
SC 8/40/1997
Date
[c. 1285]
Description
Petitioners
Piers Corbet.
Name(s)
Corbet, Piers
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
1) Corbet complains of Bray that he took and sold the keeping and marriage of the heirs of Waws which pertained to him by the gift of the king of the manor of Merston until Beauchamp came of age. He requests a remedy.2) He further complains that Mathia de Stoke recovered 50s. from him in the name of dower from rent which he received in the manor of Wynterburne by gift of the king. He requests that he can vouch the king to warranty.
Nature of endorsement
The charter of gift of the king should be viewed before the chancellor, and according to the tenor of the charter let justice be done.
Places mentioned
Merston, [Somerset]
Wynterburne Fiasse (Anderson), [Dorset]
Wells, [Somerset].
People mentioned
Henry de Bray, Escheator of the Trent
John de Beuchamp (Beauchamp)
Randulph de Waws
Thomas de Dutton of Wells
Mathia [Estokis (Stoke)], widow of William de Estokis.
Note
The petition would appear to date to c. 1285 for Corbet received the grant of the lands referred to in the petition on 16 June 1285, and Mathia de Stoke had acquired the possession of her heir and two parts of the manor of Wynterburn on 1 July 1285 on condition that she rendered the extent for those two parts to Corbet (CPR 1281-92, pp. 175-6, 182).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1552
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), pp. 175-6 (grant to Corbet in full satisfaction of a grant to him of land to the annual value of £100) & p.182 (grant to Mathia de Stoke of the custody of the heir and two parts of the manor of Wynterburn rendering the extent to Corbet)
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