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Executors of Alice, Countess of Norfolk. King. [This petition has been badly stained...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/88/4374

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SC 8/88/4374
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Executors of Alice, Countess of Norfolk.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[This petition has been badly stained with gall, and much is illegible.]The executors of Alice, Countess of Norfolk, show that whereas Bartholomew . . . in the county of Suffolk, which was and is in the keeping of the said Countess . . . Holbrook, in which manner Batholomew had no right, but that he . . . to them of the profit, and the said manor, together with the infant and the goods and chattels . . . our lord the King. The said executors ask the King, of his grace, . . . with the goods and chattels that were in it on the day when the said manor was taken into his hand . . . infant should be delivered to them, so that the said executors and do and ordain on this . . ..
Nature of endorsement
Walter de Norwyz and Harvey de Stanton are to be appointed to inquire into the things contained in the petition, and to inform on this in Chancery; and justice is to be done there.
Places mentioned
Holbrook, Suffolk.
People mentioned
Alice [de Heynau, de Bigod], Countess of Norfolk
Bartholomew [de Badlesmere]
Walter de Norwyz (Norwich)
Harvey (Hervey) de Stanton (Staunton).
Note
The commission for the inquiry in CIM 1307-49 no.485 is dated 26 May 1322; it appears to be the result of this petition. CCR 1323-7 p.75 is dated 18 March 1324.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 80
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.75 (order to deliver the manor of Holbrook and the heir of John de Holbrook to the executors, as Bartholomew de Badlesmere had custody of the manor and heir as one of Alice's executors and not otherwise)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.485 (inquisition into the wardship of the manor of Holbrook, Suffolk)
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