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Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln de Lacy; Countess of Lincoln Alice King and council...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/56/2752

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Reference
SC 8/56/2752
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln
Name(s)
de Lacy; Countess of Lincoln, Alice
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
1) The petitioner seeks a writ from the chancellor for the return of the manors of Bicester and Culham, parts of the Honour of Wallingford, as her rightful inheritance under a charter made in year four of the king (1310-11).2) The petitioner seeks the same for the return of other manors in right of her father Henry de Lacy.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] Let her show the king's charter in chancery that she was enfeoffed in the said manors, and then let reason be done.Let her show the king's charter in chancery, and let right be done.[On dorse] Coram Rege
Places mentioned
Burncestre (Bicester, [Oxfordshire]
Calham (Colham), [Middlesex]
Honour of Wallingford
Halton upon Trent (West Halton), Lincolnshire
Bolingbroke, [Lincolnshire]
Lutton, [Lincolnshire]
Horbling, [Lincolnshire]
Wadenhoe, [Northamptonshire]
Holburn, London
Woxebrugge (Uxbridge), [Middlesex]
Midlinton (Middleton Stoney), [Oxfordshire]
Egeswer (Edgeware), [Middlesex].
People mentioned
Hugh le Despenser
Henry de Lacy, late Earl of Lincoln, father of the petitioner
Thomas [of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster.
Note
Firmly datable by reference to CPR 1321-4, pp.180-181.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/56/2753

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4855
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), pp.179-182 (various grants to Alice of manors and lands of her late father and husband, and the reversion of the dower lands of her step-mother)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062970/

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