Joan le Raggedd (Raggedde), Emma le Raggedd (Raggedde) and Agnes le Raggedd (Raggedde),...

Petitioners

Joan le Raggedd (Raggedde), Emma le Raggedd (Raggedde) and Agnes le Raggedd (Raggedde), daughters of Thomas le Raggedd.

Name(s)

Raggedd (Raggedde); Raggedd (Raggedde); Raggedd (Raggedde), Joan; Emma; Agnes

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Joan, Emma and Agnes, daughters of Thomas le Raggedd, request a bovate of land in Fernilee which the king has in his hand because of the death of their father, claiming that this tenement was purchased by their sister Elizabeth, and that when she became a nun it descended to them as her heirs: as has been found by an inquisition held under a writ of diem clausit extremum, and returned in Chancery in the King's twenty-second year [1293-4].

Nature of endorsement

He is to go to Chancery and the inquisitions are to be examined, and justice is to be done on this.

Places mentioned

Fernyleye (Fernilee), [Derbyshire].

People mentioned

Thomas le Raggedd (Raggedde), father of petitioners

Elizabeth [le Raggedd (Raggedde)], nun, sister of petitioners.

For a duplicate petition see SC 8/136/6777

• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. I, Edw I, 1272-1307, (Public Record Office, 1911), pp.329 (order to the escheator beyond Trent to take into the king's hands the lands of Thomas le Raggede, deceased) & 392 (similar order)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. I, Hen III, (Public Record Office, 1904), no.135 (inquisition post mortem of Thomas le Ragged)
• 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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, other original petitions identified as coming from this parliament, no.3, & roll 25, appendix, no.3 (full edition and translation)