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Eleanor de Ewelle de Ewelle Eleanor King and council Eleanor de Ewelle states that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/46/2276

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Reference
SC 8/46/2276
Date
[c. 1338]
Description
Petitioners
Eleanor de Ewelle
Name(s)
de Ewelle, Eleanor
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Eleanor de Ewelle states that although she should hold her land of Kingsey free of all services, she paid scutage for the twenty-eighth, thirty-first and thirty-third years of Edward I's reign, because of which the Bishop of Chester, then the Treasurer, distrained her so heavily, falsely claiming that she was charged with finding a knight for the king's war, that she made fine before him in 20 marks, because he would give her no peace until she did. She asks that she might be pardoned this fine.
Nature of endorsement
This petition is to be sent before the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, and, when they have examined the charters and muniments that the said Eleanor has, and the inquisitions returned in the Exchequer, and heard her complaint, they are to do justice and reason to her.
Places mentioned
Loundres (London)
Kingsey, Buckinghamshire
People mentioned
[Edward I], King of England
[Walter Langton], Bishop of Chester (Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield) and Treasurer of England
John Neyrnnit, Collector of scutage in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Roger de Tyringham, Collector of scutage in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
[Eleanor of Castile], Queen of England
Note
Dated on the guard to '? c. 1338', with reference to CCR 1337-9 p.403, which is dated at Westminster, 22 April 1338, although it is not immediately relevant, and provides only a rough date.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2981
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1337-1339, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.403 (John Neyrunt acknowledges that he owes Eleanor de Ewelle £13 to be levied, in default of payment, from his lands and chattels in Buckinghamshire)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062486/

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