Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster. of Lancaster; Earl of Lancaster Henry King...

Petitioners

Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster.

Name(s)

of Lancaster; Earl of Lancaster, Henry

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The petitioner asks that writs preventing him from reclaiming his inheritance be made void according to law and that he should be allowed his suit (for the recovery of his lands) at the common law. He shows that he is the next heir to lands in the above counties, as proven through the diem clausit extremum of his brother, Thomas of Lancaster. Holland had writs sent to the sheriffs of these counties for any lands in the seisin of the petitioner to be delivered to him, as contained in the writ attached to this petition.

Nature of endorsement

Robert de Holland was not part of the legal action previously agreed in parliament and made there for the delivery of the lands taken into the king's hands by writ etc. Inform the petitioner that it is not the intention of king and council to allow him to be ousted from his inheritance without his answer.

Places mentioned

Leicestershire

Derbyshire

Lincolnshire

Staffordshire

Rutland

Lancashire.

People mentioned

Thomas [of Lancaster], late Earl of Lancaster, father of the petitioner

Robert de Holland.

For a related petition see SC 8/57/2807A

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.18a-b (no. 15) (full transcription of petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 13-30, no. 15 (summary of references)