Hillard de Useflete (Ousefleet). de Useflete (Ousefleet) Hillard King and council....

Petitioners

Hillard de Useflete (Ousefleet).

Name(s)

de Useflete (Ousefleet), Hillard

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Useflete requests remedy as his father was disseised of 80 acres of moor and turbary in Ousefleet by Henry de Lacy, and these are now in the king's hand by release of the earl's daughter.

Nature of endorsement

Let certain people be assigned in Chancery to enquire into the matter and how the moor and turbary came into the king's hand, and when the inquisition has been returned into Chancery it should be shown to the king.

Places mentioned

Ousefleet, [West Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

William [de Useflete (Ousefleet)], father of the petitioner

Henry de Lascy (Lacy), Earl of Lincoln

Joan [de Lascy (Lacy)], widow of Henry de Lacy

Alice [de Lascy (Lacy)], daughter of Henry de Lacy.

For a near identical petition by a different petitioner see SC 8/159/7902

For another petition claiming that the earl has seized moorland see SC 8/160/7989

For another near identical petition by a different petitioner see SC 8/159/7904

For a related document see SC 8/260/12976

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same subject see SC 8/80/3986

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. VI, 1341-1343, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.253 (order to the justices to proceed to judgment at a later stage in the legal process)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.2013 (inquisition following the petitioner's recovery of the moor)