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Alice Beler (Belers), widow of Roger Beler. Beler (Belers) Alice King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/165/8218

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This record is about the Alice Beler (Belers), widow of Roger Beler. Beler (Belers) Alice King and council.... dating from [c. 1333-c. 1336] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/165/8218
Date
[c. 1333-c. 1336]
Description
Petitioners
Alice Beler (Belers), widow of Roger Beler.
Name(s)
Beler (Belers), Alice
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Alice requests, that whereas her husband died seised of Framland hundred to hold to him and his heirs in fee farm, and the hundred was then given to Despenser until Alice and Roger's son reached his majority, that she be granted the keeping of the hundred during her son's minority, rendering £12 18s 5½d yearly at the Exchequer as her husband was accustomed to do.
Nature of endorsement
She should have keeping of the hundred, rendering the farm contained in the petition.
Places mentioned
Framland hundred, Leicestershire.
People mentioned
Roger Beler (Belers), late husband of the petitioner
Lady la Despenser.
Note
Dated on the guard to c. 1333-c. 1336, with reference to CFR 1327-37, p. 364, a 1333 order to restore Framland Hundred to Alice de Beler upon her petition, and CCR 1333-7, p. 691, a 1336 order to the sheriff of Warwick and Leicester not to intermeddle with Framland Hundred, restoring the issues thereof to Alice Beler who holds the hundred by the king's grant until Roger's heir comes of age.
Related material

For a related petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/264/13166

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.691 (order to the sheriff of Warwick and Leicester not to intermeddle with Framland hundred, restoring the issues to Alice Beler)
  • Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IV, Edw III, 1327-1337, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.364 (order to restore Framland hundred to Alice Beler)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294063/

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