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Sybil de Mohun, widow of John de Mohun. de Mohun Sybil King and council. Mohun requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/169/8441

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Reference
SC 8/169/8441
Date
[1333]
Description
Petitioners
Sybil de Mohun, widow of John de Mohun.
Name(s)
de Mohun, Sybil
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Mohun requests that the king order by his writs to the justices who are holding her pleas of dower to do justice to her and hold the final discussions of the pleas so that she can have her dower. She brought writs against the Meres and Courtenays for thirds of the manors of Mildenhall and Cadley but she has been delayed as the justices do not wish to proceed as the matter concerned the lord the king, and have done nothing since a previous command by the king.
Nature of endorsement
Let a writ be directed to the justices that if the process be such then they should go to judgment, notwithstanding the allegation.
Places mentioned
Mildenhall, [Wiltshire]
Caledeleye (Cadleigh), [Devon].
People mentioned
John de Mohun, late husband of the petitioner
John de Mere
Eleanor [de Mere], wife of John de Mere
Hugh de Courteneye (Courtenay), knight
Agnes [de Courteneye (Courtenay), wife of Hugh de Courtenay
John, kinsman and heir of John de Mohun
Bishop of Norwich.
Note
The petition is dated to 1333 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Ryley manuscript which dated the petitions to parliament held in 7 Edw. III (1333) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.71a-b (no.4)).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.71a-b (no.4) (full edition of later copy of original 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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 70-2, no. 4 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294289/

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