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Agnes le Port. Port Agnes King. Agnes le Port states that the Prior of Chacombe is...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/193/9615

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Reference
SC 8/193/9615
Date
[1316]
Description
Petitioners
Agnes le Port.
Name(s)
Port, Agnes
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Agnes le Port states that the Prior of Chacombe is claiming that the tenements in Wormleighton that she holds of the King are held of him, and that by favour and underhand means, and for lack of support from the King, he is about to recover the tenements with the King's lordship. She requests the King's aid, as other tenants have of their lord, and writs or letters to John de Schukeborwe, coroner, John le Chaynel and John de Kave, William de Bereford and Stephen de Seygrave, to help her suit in various ways which she specifies.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Chacombe, [Northamptonshire]
Wormleighton, Warwickshire.
People mentioned
[Alexander], Prior of Chacombe
John de Dreydeston
John de Schukeborwe (Shuckburgh), coroner
John le Chaynel
John de Kave
William de Bereford
Stephen de Seygrave (Segrave)
[Edward I], King of England
[Eleanor of Castile], Queen of England.
Note
This petition was formerly enclosed with CCW 1244-1326 p.431, which is dated 7 April 1316, as is CPR 1313-17 p.493.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.431 (instructions to give the petitioner the necessary writs, and to preserve her right and the King's)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.493 (commission of oyer et terminer to Chaynel and Kave on complaint by John and Agnes le Port that the Prior of Chalcombe and others entered and destroyed their property, carried off their goods and distrained them)
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