Randolf le Mareschal (Marshal), son of Hugh le Mareschal. Mareschal (Marshal) Randolf...

Petitioners

Randolf le Mareschal (Marshal), son of Hugh le Mareschal.

Name(s)

Mareschal (Marshal), Randolf

Addressees

King and Council.

Nature of request

Randolf le Mareschal requests remedy regarding various lands which he is claiming against the rector of Ashridge. The rector claims that these lands were given to one of his predecessors by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, obliging him and his heirs to warranty. As the King is the heir of Edmund, the rector states that he cannot answer without the King, and thus he asks that the King speak his will on this, so that right can be done to him.

Nature of endorsement

Coram Rege.[Deleted - They are to proceed to give judgment, but before the judgment is given]The King wishes that he should answer and that the justices should proceed, and that they certify to the King before rendering judgment, and upon this let there be a writ in Chancery.xxxii (32)These were dealt with before the King on Sunday in the first week of Lent.

Places mentioned

Ashridge, [Hertfordshire].

People mentioned

Hugh le Mareschal (Marshal), father of the petitioner

Rector of Ashridge

Roger de Beal Forest (Belforest)

Edmund [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall.

For an earlier stage in this dispute see m 317 of CP 40/144

• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.47-8 (no.77) (full edition of petition, and Latin response from parliament roll)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.161b (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
• 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), roll 12, appendix, no. 78 (full edition and translation of petition and response, with references)