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John Batell (Battle); Thomas Batell (Battle), brother of John Batell; William Gascoigne;...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/94/4694

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Reference
SC 8/94/4694
Date
[1381-1382]
Description
Petitioners
John Batell (Battle); Thomas Batell (Battle), brother of John Batell; William Gascoigne; William Efeld, clerk.
Name(s)
Batell (Battle); Batell (Battle); Gascoigne; Efeld, John; Thomas; William; William
Addressees
King and council in the present parliament.
Occupation
clerk
Nature of request
The petitioners, the feoffees of the manor of Bradwell request that the manor is returned to them, they finding sufficient surety, as it has been seized into the king's hand wrongly by the escheator, and they have been unable to recover it.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Bradwell, Essex
Coggeshall, Essex.
People mentioned
Margaret [Long], widow of Simon Long
Simon Long.
Note
The petition appears to date to 1381-1382 as entries in the patent rolls suggest that the escheat of the manor was alive issue over these years (CPR 1381-5, pp.136, 196, 199, 244). The petition seems to have failed for the king had in 1383 granted his interests in the manor of Bradwell to four individuals (not the petitioners) who had apparently been enfeoffed with it before the escheat (CPR 1381-5, pp.329, 437, 576).
Related material

For transcript, see no.93 of PRO 31/7/108

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 836
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.136, 196, 199, 244 (commissions to find who had entered the manor of Bradwell after it had escheated to the king) & pp.329, 437, 578 (grants of the king's interest in the manor of Bradwell to four individuals who had been enfeoffed in the manor prior to the escheat)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149245/

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