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Alexander de la Worth. Worth Alexander King and council. Alexander de la Worth states...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/150/7478

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Reference
SC 8/150/7478
Date
[? c. 1324]
Description
Petitioners
Alexander de la Worth.
Name(s)
Worth, Alexander
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Alexander de la Worth states that in the King's father's sixth year, John de Excestre, Treasurer of the church of St Peter of Exeter, purchased 2 marks of rent issuing from tenements held in villeinage in Downton in Hampshire, and that he died seised of this rent and his right in it descended to his sister, Emma, and then to her son, Alexander. But because the tenements from which the rent came were held of the manor of Christchurch, they were taken into the King's father's hand after John's death, and has remained in the King's hand until now, because Emma never sued for it, and Alexander has not sued until now. He requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
He is to declare in Chancery if he has any evidence for the King's permission, and whether he has or not, justice is to be done to the complainant there.
Places mentioned
Exeter, [Devon]
Donkerton (Downton), Hampshire
Christchurch, [Hampshire].
People mentioned
John de Excestre (Exeter), Treasurer of the church of St Peter of Exeter
John de la Leye
Denise [de la Leye], wife of John de la Leye
Sarah de Coreham, sister of Denise de la Leye
Edward [I], King of England
Emma [de Excestre (Exeter)], sister and heir of John de Excestre (Exeter).
Note
From the content this petition is clearly from the reign of Edward II, and from the hand and language quite possibly from c. 1324, like many others in this file.
Related material

For a later petition from the same petitioner on this subject, see SC 8/259/12947

For transcript, see no.101 of PRO 31/7/98

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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/C9209663/

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