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

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.

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

• 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)