Segrede de Berlay (Barlow), widow of Richard de Berlay. de Berlay (Barlow) Segrede...

Petitioners

Segrede de Berlay (Barlow), widow of Richard de Berlay.

Name(s)

de Berlay (Barlow), Segrede

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Berlay requests reasonable dower be assigned to her as her husband's manor of Barlow of which he was seised at their espousal has been seized into the king's hand because the reversion of the same manor was to the late earl of Lancaster. She requested dower from the king at Pickering, and he granted that she should have it and ordered the manor to be extended, and the extent is now returned into Chancery.1)

Nature of endorsement

Let the petition be given to the chancellor, and when he has viewed the extent which has been returned on this he should do right.2) Coram rege.

Places mentioned

Berlay (Barlow), [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Pickering, [North Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Richard de Berlay (Barlow), late husband of the petitioner

Thomas [of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster

Thomas Dayvill

Richard de Mosley.

For a related copy of a charter see SC 8/92/4557

For transcript, see no.108 of PRO 31/7/97

For a petition by the petitioner's late husband on the same matter see SC 8/92/4556

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.28 (order to the constable of Pontefract to keep the charters concerning the manor of Barlow) & pp.419-20 (order to the escheator to remove his hand from lands in Escrick)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.719 (extent of the manor of Barlow) & no.854 (inquisition concerning the manor of Barlow)