Thomas de Nerford. de Nerford Thomas King. Nerford requests that it be ordered by...

Petitioners

Thomas de Nerford.

Name(s)

de Nerford, Thomas

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Nerford requests that it be ordered by writ to the justices that they proceed in the assize concerning lands and tenements in Shotesham and Watton and elsewhere which are his right and inheritance, and which the Mautravers disseised him of. Nerford brought an assize against them but it was delayed because John Mautravers was condemned in parliament so that Nerford brought an assize against Anneyse Mautravers who has answered that she holds the tenements by assignment of the king and cannot answer without the king, and the justices will not proceed.

Nature of endorsement

It seems to the council that the original writ is not maintainable by law without the name of her husband, for which thing nothing is able to be done.

Places mentioned

Shotesham, [Norfolk]

Watton, [Norfolk]

Stoke Holy Cross, [Norfolk]

Tharston, [Norfolk]

Long Stratton, [Norfolk]

Wellingham, [Norfolk]

Hapton, [Norfolk].

People mentioned

John de Nerford

John Mautravers (Maltravers)

Anneyse [Mautravers (Maltravers)], wife of John Mautravers.

For another petitioner by the same petitioner and others, see SC 8/131/6548

For another petition by the same petitioner and others, see SC 8/187/9349

For a related document, see SC 8/266/13273

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/130/6476

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.82a (no.38) (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, Rot. Parl., vol. II, pp. 73-89, no. 38 (summary of references)