William Danvers, son of Thomas Danvers. Danvers William King Danvers requests the...

Petitioners

William Danvers, son of Thomas Danvers.

Name(s)

Danvers, William

Addressees

King

Nature of request

Danvers requests the king's will. Mortimer was bound to him in a rent to be taken annually from Mortimer's lands and tenements at Newbury by the hand of the bailiff of Stratfield Mortimer for the term of Danvers' life, [until he advanced him in marriage]. He had received the rent until the escheator, after the death of Mortimer, seized Mortimer's lands and tenements into the king's hand. Danvers sued, and it was ordered that the matter should be enquired into . . . and the treasurer and chamberlains of the Exchequer at the order of the king certified in Chancery that Danvers had not quitclaimed the rent to the king.

Nature of endorsement

Let the process with the certification to this petition be ordered to the justices holding the pleas of the king, and having called the sergeants of the king, and heard their arguments, there is further to be done what is to be done.

Places mentioned

Newbury, Berkshire

Stratfield Mortimer, [Berkshire].

People mentioned

Roger de Mortymer (Mortimer), Lord of Wigmore.

For a related petition see SC 8/106/5287

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.212, 428 (writs ordering the restoration of the rent, and payment of the arrears)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.568-70 (grant of the custody of the lands)