Roger de Somervill. de Somervill Roger Council. Somervill requests allowance for...

Petitioners

Roger de Somervill.

Name(s)

de Somervill, Roger

Addressees

Council.

Nature of request

Somervill requests allowance for the sum that he used to receive from the bailiwick of Strafforth which has all times been in the hand of the sheriffs who have used to take 40 marks each year towards the payment of the farm, but it has now been granted to Wasteneys for life rendering £10 annually and Somervill has a loss of 25 marks to the destruction of the other wapentakes.

Nature of endorsement

He should have a writ in Chancery to the treasurer and barons etc. containing the effect of the petition, that they should enquire of the contents and return the inquisition into the Exchequer and do justice to the plaintiff.

Places mentioned

Strafforth wapentake, [West Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Edmund de Wastenays.

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/142/7074

• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. II, Edw II, 1307-1319, (Public Record Office, 1912), pp.94, 312-13 (grants for life to Wasteney of the bailiwick)
• Calendar of Memoranda Rolls (Exchequer), Michaelmas 1326-Michaelmas 1327, (Public Record Office, 1968), no.585 (order for an inquisition into the matter and to do justice)