Hillard de Useflet (Ousefleet). de Useflet (Ousefleet) Hillard King and council....

Petitioners

Hillard de Useflet (Ousefleet).

Name(s)

de Useflet (Ousefleet), Hillard

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Useflet requests that the king will enquire and do justice to him as Lacy wrongfully and without judgment disseised his father of moor in Inclesmore in the vill of Ousefleet, and this has now come into the king's hand by the release of the earl's daughter.1)

Nature of endorsement

Let Herle and Denum be assigned to enquire in the presence of the keeper there on the contents in the petition and return the inquisition, and when the inquisition has been returned, let it be ordered to the treasurer and chamberlains to search the remembrances and other muniments for the king.2) Coram rege.

Places mentioned

Enkelesmore (Inclesmore), [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Ousefleet, [West Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln

William de Usflet (Ousefleet), father of the petitioner

Alice [de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln], daughter Henry de Lacy

William de Herle

John de Denum.

For a related petition see SC 8/159/7902

For a related petition, see SC 8/160/7989

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.437b (no.29) (full edition of identical petition by John son of William de Useflete (though perhaps a mistranscription by Hale))
• 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 I, pp. 431-447, no. 29 (reference to a petition that may be this one)