Margaret le Boteler (Butler), widow of John le Boteler (Butler) of Farnborough. Boteler...

Petitioners

Margaret le Boteler (Butler), widow of John le Boteler (Butler) of Farnborough.

Name(s)

Boteler (Butler), Margaret

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Margaret, widow of John le Boteler of Farnborough, states that Adam de Strattone held a certain rent in London of her, which ought to revert to her as her escheat, which she can prove by a fine levied in the court of Henry III, in the fifty-seventh (ms fifty-eighth) year of his reign, and recorded in the present King's court in his first year. She asks that this might be inquired into, and, if it is found to be true, that she might give the King satisfaction for the year and the day, and have the rent as her escheat.

Nature of endorsement

It is answered.The Treasurer is to keep the response, and the rent is to be paid to her as it used to be.

Places mentioned

Farnborough [unidentified]

London.

People mentioned

John le Boteler (Butler) of Farnborough

Adam de Strattone (Stratton)

Henry [III], King of England.

For a virtually identical petition with a different endorsement, see SC 8/1/12

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.55b (no.122) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
• 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), roll 02, appendix, no.146 (edition of petition)