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Joan de Brightmerestone (Brigmerston), widow of Steven de Brigmerston. de Brightmerestone...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/91/4524

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Reference
SC 8/91/4524
Date
[1315]
Description
Petitioners
Joan de Brightmerestone (Brigmerston), widow of Steven de Brigmerston.
Name(s)
de Brightmerestone (Brigmerston, Joan
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Brightmerestone requests remedy as her late husband was adjudged to his penance during which he died, and the sheriff took all of his goods and chattels so that she cannot pay his debts or execute his will.1)
Nature of endorsement
Because he was adjudged to his penance and died in this estate, his chattels are forfeit to the king.2) Coram magno consilio.
Places mentioned
Salisbury Castle, [Wiltshire].
People mentioned
Steven de Brightmerestone (Brigmerston), late husband of the petitioner
John de Holte, then sheriff of Wiltshire.
Note
The petition dates to 1315 because a subsequent petition by the same petitioner on the same matter was successful and she recovered her late husband's goods and chattels by mainprise in 1315(CCR 1313-18, p.182). In addition the petition must date to after 1315 as the petition refers to John de Holte being the former sheriff and his term ended on 28 April 1315 (List of sheriffs, p.152).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/36/1776

For transcript, see no.25 of PRO 31/7/97

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/82/4064

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 497
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.182 (order to the sheriffs of Wiltshire and Hampshire and others to deliver the goods and chattels of Brightmerston to his widow as she has found sufficient mainprise) & p.187 (order to the sheriffs of Wiltshire and Hampshire to enquire of the goods and chattels of Brightmerston as his widow had complained that she had only received a fraction of them) & p.362 (order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to deliver the goods and chattels, the sheriffs having not acted)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149070/

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