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Roger de Morteyn (Mortain); Isabel de Morteyn (Mortain), wife of Roger de Mortain....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/61/3024

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Reference
SC 8/61/3024
Date
[c. 1311]
Description
Petitioners
Roger de Morteyn (Mortain); Isabel de Morteyn (Mortain), wife of Roger de Mortain.
Name(s)
de Morteyn (Mortain); de Morteyn (Mortain), Roger; Isabel
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The petitioners request remedy as they were not named in an assize by which lands that they had let for a term of years in Appleby were taken into the king's hand. Tochet enfeoffed them and the heirs of their bodies of Appleby. They leased it at farm to the prior and convent of Thornholme for 30 years, but they were ejected by Tochet supposing that they were enfeoffed in fee. Eventually by an assize the tenements were seized into the hand of the king because it was found by that assize that the land had been alienated in mortmain.
Nature of endorsement
Because it is accounted by the assize that the tenement mentioned by the petition was alienated in mortmain and the chief lords did not prosecute their right in the time ordained by statute it is considered that the tenements ought to remain in the king's hand by virtue of the alienation
Places mentioned
Appleby, [Lincolnshire]
Lindsey, [Lincolnshire]
Thornholme, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
William de Luwe (Louth), Bishop of Ely
William Tochet
Prior and convent of Thornholme
Walter de Gloucester, Escheator south of the Trent.
Note
The petition must date to 1311 or thereafter for it refers to Walter de Gloucestre being the former escheator and he was replaced in April 1311 (List of Escheators, p.4).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioners on a related matter see SC 8/62/3078

For another petition by the same petitioners see SC 8/61/3025

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5656
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106786/

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