Aymer de Valence and William le Waleys, his tenant of the manor of Woolstrop. de...

Petitioners

Aymer de Valence and William le Waleys, his tenant of the manor of Woolstrop.

Name(s)

de Valence; Waleys, Aymer; William

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Aymer de Valence and William le Waleys state that Robert de Pountdelarge used to hold the manor of Woolstrop, paying 10s annually to the manor of Barton, and suit of court there, and that after his death it came into the hand of Henry III, in whose seisin all services were ended. Henry enfeoffed William de Valence, Aymer's father, with the manor, together with the other lands belonging to Robert de Pountdelarge, to be held for no services, and William then enfeoffed William de Pountedelarge, whose heir William le Waleys is. The King's bailiffs of Barton are now distraining for the 10s and suit of court, contrary to William de Valence's charter of feoffment, and they request a remedy.

Nature of endorsement

They are to show King's Henry's charter to William de Valence for the aforesaid lands, and the charter by which the ancestors of William le Waleys were enfeoffed, as is claimed. And in the meantime the rolls and memoranda both of the Exchequer and of Chancery are to be examined for the King's right, and Queen Margaret's bailiffs of Barton are to be ordered to appear before the lieutenant of the Treasurer and the Barons of the Exchequer at the quinzaine of Michaelmas, to inform the court about the contents of the petition.

Places mentioned

Woolstrop, Gloucestershire

Barton, [Gloucestershire].

People mentioned

Robert de Pountdelarge (Pontlarge)

Henry [III], King of England

William de Valence

William de Pountedelarge (Pontlarge)

Margaret [of France], Queen of England.

For transcript, see no.102 of PRO 31/7/96

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.311a (enrolment of petition on parliament roll, as part of the process on a later petition on the subject)
• 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), parliament of January 1315, item 110 (full edition and translation of petition enrolled on later parliament roll); parliament of August 1312, SC 9/26, item 18 (full edition and translation of Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)