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Isabel de Roos (Ros), widow of William de Roos of Ingmanthorpe. de Roos (Ros) Isabel...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/171/8521

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Reference
SC 8/171/8521
Date
[1348]
Description
Petitioners
Isabel de Roos (Ros), widow of William de Roos of Ingmanthorpe.
Name(s)
de Roos (Ros), Isabel
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[The petition is damaged and the full sense of the petition is not clear].Roos requests that the roll of her plea for certain lands and tenements in Steventon be brought and viewed and considering the statute of W. . . that the justices go to judgment according to the effect of the statute. She brought a writ of formdon in reverter against York but he claimed that her uncle had granted the same lands to his father and called her to warranty.1)
Nature of endorsement
The bishop of Chichester, the earl of Devon, the earl of Huntingdon, lord Wake, Thomas de Berkeley are to be assigned by commission to determine the pleas that are sent into parliament out of the Bench.2) The record is to be brought into parliament, and the parties if they wish, and their arguments are to be heard, and let discussion be made.
Places mentioned
Ingmanthorpe, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Steeton, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
William Deverwyk (York)
Thomas de Steventon (Steeton), knight, uncle of the petitioner
John de Stonore (Stonor)
[Robert Stratford], bishop of Chichester
[Hugh de Courtenay], Earl of Devon
[William de Clinton], Earl of Huntingdon
Lord Wake
Thomas de Berkeley.
Note
The petition is dated to 1348 as the petition was transcribed by Matthew Hale who ascribed a date of 1348 to the group of petitions amongst which this belongs (Rot. Parl., vol. II, p.195b (no.81)).
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/138/6853

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.195b (no.81) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294386/

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