Bertram de Monboucher. de Monboucher Bertram King and council. Monboucher requests...

Petitioners

Bertram de Monboucher.

Name(s)

de Monboucher, Bertram

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Monboucher requests that he be reinstated in the manor of Seghill or that compensation be made to him to the value of the rent for the term of his life. The manor was granted to him by Edward II for his life for his services and losses, the manor being forfeited by Selby. The king has now re-granted the manor to Selby and the sheriff has ejected him.

Nature of endorsement

Let it be ordered to the sheriff that he warn Selby that he be at the next parliament to show how he has entered the manor and why it should not be seized into the hand of the king be delivered to Monboucher to hold it according to the form of his charter, and meanwhile let the process in Chancery be searched by which Selby has entered.

Places mentioned

Seghill, Northumberland.

People mentioned

Walter de Selby.

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see no. 2594 in C 81/161

• Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), p.151 (no.125) (full calendar of petition and references)
• Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. III, 1307-1357, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), p.116 (no.610) (inquisition concerning Selaby's forfeiture) & p.177 (no.981) (order for an inquisition into the case of Selaby and Monboucher, a calendar of C 81/161/2594)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.332 (grant to Selby of the reversion of the manor on Monboucher's death)