Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; Robert de Clyfford (Clifford). Beauchamp, Earl...

Petitioners

Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; Robert de Clyfford (Clifford).

Name(s)

Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; de Clyfford (Clifford), Thomas; Robert

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The Earl of Warwick and Robert de Clyfford state that the Bishop of Durham is claiming by petition in parliament to have forfeitures of war between the rivers Tyne and Tees, citing an example from the time of Henry III, and is requesting the manors of Barnard Castle and Gainford, which the Earl of Warwick holds and which were forfeited by John de Baillolf, and the manor of Hart, which Robert de Clyfford holds and which was forfeited by Robert de Bruys; and that the King has granted him forfeitures of war provided that he does not expel without response anyone who entered any lands by feoffment of his progenitors. The petitioners state that their manors are in the wapentake of Sadberge, which is not part of the Bishop's franchise - as indeed is the manor in the case cited by the Bishop, making it a false precedent - and that the Bishop is demanding the manor of Hart from Robert de Clyfford in his own court, by a writ of right by reason of the forfeiture of war that he claims. They ask that the parties might be summoned before the Bench to show their evidence there, and that justice might be done to them there.

Nature of endorsement

With regard to the first point: the King does not want them to be expelled without a response, as was previously ordained in parliament. And concerning the fact that Robert is impleaded in the Bishop's court: he is to aid himself by his charter.With regard to the second point: they are to have a writ to attach the Bishop to appear before the King on a certain day to show why he has accroached to himself, by virtue of his charter, lands and tenements which are not of his lordship or within his franchise; and the writ of attachment is to contain the effect of this petition.

Places mentioned

River Tyne

River Tees

Greatham, [County Durham]

Barnard Castle, [County Durham]

Gainford, [County Durham]

Hart, [County Durham]

Sadberge wapentake, [County Durham]

Liberty of the Haliwerfolc, [County Durham].

People mentioned

Louis (Lewis) [de Beaumont], Bishop of Durham

Henry [III], King of England

Thomas de Clare

Peter de Mounfort (Montfort)

John de Baillolf (Balliol), [King of Scotland]

Robert [I] de Bruys (Brus, Bruce), [King of Scotland]

Robert [Stichill], Bishop of Durham.

For a related petition from the Bishop of Durham, see SC 8/108/5381

For a copy of Henry III's charter concerning the manor of Greatham, formerly attached to SC 8/149/7437, see SC 8/149/7438

For a related petition from the same petitioners, see SC 8/149/7437

For another petition by Clifford, see SC 8/168/8387

For a related petition, see SC 8/158/7878

For a related petition from a later Bishop of Durham, see SC 8/44/2166

For a related petition from an earlier Bishop of Durham, see SC 8/321/E456

For another petition possibly by Clifford, see SC 8/219/10913

For another petition from Clifford, see SC 8/98/4864