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Petitioners

Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln

Name(s)

de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, Alice

Addressees

King and council

Nature of request

The petitioner seeks recovery of lands taken into the king's hands after the death of her husband (Thomas of Lancaster) that were held in her own right, together with other parcels of land etc., and all the issues and all the advowsons appertaining to them in the county of Lincoln. She also claims arrears of fees and other advowsons held jointly with her husband and the advowsons of certain churches, and other manors, parcels of land, fees, advowsons etc., held jointly with her husband in various counties.

Nature of endorsement

Explain in chancery which lands and tenements are in the king's hands and which in the hands of others. For those in other hands sue to the common law and for those in the king's hands let the king certify in chancery.Coram Domino Rege.

Places mentioned

Honour of Pontefract, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Temple Guiting, [Gloucestershire]

Ewell, [Kent]

Brustlesham (Bisham), [Berkshire]

Bulstrode, [Buckinghamshire]

Temple Bruer, [Lincolnshire]

Keele, [Staffordshire]

Cowlinge, Suffolk

Wardington (Warrington), Buckinghamshire

Resham (Reepham), [Lincolnshire]

Waddington, [Lincolnshire]

Stainton, [Lincolnshire]

Waddingham, [Lincolnshire]

People mentioned

Thomas [of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster, late husband of the petitioner.

For a related petition see SC 8/56/2752

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.574-6 (enrolments of the release of various lands to the king by Alice de Lacy)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.717 (inquisition into lands formerly held by the Knights Templar, now held by Alice de Lacy, in Gloucestershire and Kent)
• 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)