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Richard Touchet. Touchet Richard King and council. Richard Touchet makes two requests:1)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/75/3750

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Reference
SC 8/75/3750
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Richard Touchet.
Name(s)
Touchet, Richard
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Richard Touchet makes two requests:1) He states that he was seised of the manor of Oxenton in Gloucestershire, of the gift of his brother, William Touchet, and was seised for a full year before his brother took it back. It is now in the King's hand through William's forfeiture: He requests the King's grace on this matter.2) He also requests the King's grace in the matter of an annual rent of 103s. granted to him by William from the manor of Burreth in Lincolnshire, of which he was seised for ten years before William's death.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.With regard to the first petition: he is to sue at common law because the manor is not in the King's hand.With regard to the second: he is to show his evidence in Chancery, and the truth is to be inquired into etc.; and justice is further to be done.
Places mentioned
Oxenton, Gloucestershire
Burreth, Lincolnshire.
People mentioned
William Touchet, brother of petitioner.
Note
The commission for CIM 1307-49::no.564 is dated 2 December 16 Edward II (1322), but the inquisition was not held until the following September, and CCR 1323-7 p.64 is dated 8 March 1324.
Related material

For another contemporary petition concerning the manor of Oxenton, see SC 8/41/2007

For a later petition concerning the manor of Burreth, see SC 8/144/7152

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7984
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.64 (order to pay the 103s. from Burreth to the petitioner, with arrears)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.564 (inquisition into the rent of 103s. from Burreth)
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