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Robert de Workesely. de Workesely Robert King and lords of parliament. Robert de...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/146/7276

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Reference
SC 8/146/7276
Date
[c. 1390-c. 1410)
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Workesely.
Name(s)
de Workesely, Robert
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
Robert de Workesely states that he has wardship of Elizabeth, daughter of Geoffrey de Workesely and Isabel de Lathom, with the intention of marrying her to his son, but that Mary de Felton, the divorced first wife of Geoffrey de Workesely, who had entered the house of the Minoresses in London, has left the convent, against the will of the Abbess, and is suing false lawsuits to disinherit Elizabeth and to annul her own profession. He requests a remedy, so that Elizabeth is not disinherited.
Nature of endorsement
When this petition had been read in parliament in the presence of the parties present there, and when their arguments on one side and the other had been heard, John Curson named in the petition granted in parliament that he intended to sue with effect the writ which he and his wife have pending in Common Bench on this matter, without any deceit, fraud or delay, and that he would not make a non-suit. And the petitioner granted also that he would not make any appeal or other delay concerning the certification of the Bishop of London, but, in the case that the said John should claim or show any secret sentence or other process of the law of Holy Church not known to the said Robert, then Robert will be allowed to appeal the said sentence or processes, and to have such delays as the law demands.
Places mentioned
London
Kirby Bedon, Norfolk
Westminster.
People mentioned
Geoffrey de Workesely
Mary de Felton
Minoresses of London
Thomas de Lathom
Isabel [de Lathom], daughter of Thomas de Lathom
Elizabeth [de Workesely], daughter of Geoffrey de Workesely and Isabel de Lathom
Thomas [Illegible, due to damage to ms]
John Sturmyn
John de Curson, knight, husband of Mary de Felton.
Note
Dated on the guard to '? c. 1391' with reference to SC 8/103/5109, but this is not possible if the dating of c. 1390 for that petition is accurate, and even the date of c. 1381 originally suggested for SC 8/103/5109 would scarcely allow time for the developments that have taken place between the petitions. It is safer therefore to assign the petition more generally to the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
Related material

For transcript, see no.76 of PRO 31/7/111

For another petition concerning Geoffrey de Workesley see SC 8/103/5109

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209459/

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