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Matilda Upton, Abbess of Godstow. Upton Matilda King and council Abbess of Godstow...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/50/2473

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Reference
SC 8/50/2473
Date
[c. 1315]
Description
Petitioners
Matilda Upton, Abbess of Godstow.
Name(s)
Upton, Matilda
Addressees
King and council
Occupation
Abbess of Godstow
Nature of request
The abbess requests remedy. The king's ancestors granted a vaccary and pastures to them in Panshill but Despenser by colour of his office seized them into the king's hand without cause, and extended it at little value, delivering it to Handlo, his sub-keeper by an arentment made in the Exchequer, holding it at the king's will, of which several pasture called Lachemede her predecessor was wrongfully ejected from in the times of King Edward the father.
Nature of endorsement
He should sue at the common law.
Places mentioned
Panchehale (Panshill), [Buckinghamshire].
People mentioned
Hugh le Despenser, the father, Keeper of the Forest below the Trent
John de Handlo, Sub-Keeper of the Forest.
Note
The date is uncertain, the guard making it c. 1315 but on the basis of an unconnected grant of land to John de Handlo which included land in the king's wood at Paunshale (CFR 1307-19, p.229).
Related material

For a petition by Handlo see SC 8/50/2494

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3580
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. II, Edw II, 1307-1319, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.229 (grant of land including in the wood of Panshill to Handlo)
  • Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), pp.110-111 (no.44) (translation and discussion of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062687/

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