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Elizabeth Gorgis (Gorges), widow of Bartholomew Gorgis. Gorgis (Gorges) Elizabeth...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/182/9079

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Reference
SC 8/182/9079
Date
[1398]
Description
Petitioners
Elizabeth Gorgis (Gorges), widow of Bartholomew Gorgis.
Name(s)
Gorgis (Gorges), Elizabeth
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Elizabeth Gorges requests that the king order the chancellor to hold an investigation and do right to her concerning the manor of Wraxall. She states that her husband held the manor in chief, but on his death the escheator of Somerset allowed Thomas Gorges to take possession instead of taking it into the king's hands for Bartholomew's daughters. Thomas has despoiled the manor of goods worth £40, and refuses to allow Elizabeth her dower.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Wraxall, [Somerset]
Somerset.
People mentioned
Bartholomew Gorgis (Gorges), late husband of the petitioner
Thomas Gorges, brother of Bartholomew Gorges
Escheator of Somerset.
Note
The chancery warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed is dated 27 March 1398. A writ to assign dower to Elizabeth was issued on 28 September 1396 (see CIPM, vol. XVII, nos.786-9), and separate commissions were ordered to apportion dower on 6 June 1397, 30 October 1397 and 4 May 1398. Given the date of the associated warrant, this petition presumably relates to the last of these commissions, while the near-duplicate petition at SC 8/181/9004 probably relates to one of the other two.
Related material

For a duplicate of this petition, written by a different scribe and slightly differently addressed, see SC 8/181/9004

For the chancery warrant with which this petition was once enclosed see no.11991 of C 81/572

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. XVII, 15-23 Ric II, (Public Record Office, 1988), nos.786-91 (inquisitions post mortem of Bartholomew Gorges, assignment of dower and certification of two fines)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.159 (appointment of commissioners to apportion dower to the petitioner) & p.306 (similar appointment) and p.366 (similar appointment, seemingly in response to this petition)
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