Roger de Bavent. de Bavent Roger King and council. Roger de Bavent states that he...

Petitioners

Roger de Bavent.

Name(s)

de Bavent, Roger

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Roger de Bavent states that he brought a writ of entry against Piers de Scudamore returnable before the justices of King's Bench in the twelfth year of the king's reign (1312), concerning the manor of Upton Scudamore. He pursued his plea until Piers came into court and put himself on the country on the grounds that Walter his father had not disseised Piers de Escudemor, Roger's grandfather. The plea continued in court, in order to summon a jury, as appears from the record and process of the plea pending before Bereford and his companions, justices of the King's Bench. This manor is now in the king's hand, through Piers' forfeiture. Roger requests that the king order that his right in the manor be enquired into and tried, according to the plea between him and Piers, so that he is not disinherited through the forfeiture.1)

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.2) Roger Bavent.

Places mentioned

Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire.

People mentioned

Piers [de Scudamore], son of Walter de Escudemor (Scudamore)

Walter de Escudemor (Scudamore)

Piers de Escudemor (Scudamore), grandfather of the petitioner

William de Bereford, justice of the King's Bench.

A petition about this petitioner is SC 8/13/630

A duplicate of this petition is SC 8/6/300

A petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/32/1562

For a related petition see SC 8/157/7806

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.408a (no.125) (edition of petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl. vol. I, pp. 387-415, no. 125 (summary of references)