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Richere de Cateby (Catesby), daughter and heir of William de Catesby. de Cateby (Catesby)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/204/10179

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Reference
SC 8/204/10179
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Richere de Cateby (Catesby), daughter and heir of William de Catesby.
Name(s)
de Cateby (Catesby), Richere
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Cateby requests that she is able to have her inheritance as her father was taken at Warsop and held for 2 days and a night and then beheaded by the people of the town without judgment by which Cobbledike has taken all her father's tenements into the king's hand.1)
Nature of endorsement
Certain justices are to be assigned to enquire of the truth, calling the sheriff and the coroners, and let the king be certified in Chancery.2) Coram rege et magno consilio. Herlaston.
Places mentioned
Warsop, [Nottinghamshire].
People mentioned
William de Cateby (Catesby), father of the petitioner
Alan de Cobbuldik (Cobbledike, Copuldyke).
Note
The petition dates to 1322 as it clearly dates closely with its associated documents that all date to May and June 1322 (SC 8/204/10180-5) and Cobbledike was ordered to restore the land on 13 July 1322 (CCR 1318-23, p.570).
Related material

For the writ of those assigned to enquire of the case to the sheriff, see SC 8/204/10181

For the inquisition resulting from this petition, see SC 8/204/10184

For the writ formerly appended to this petition, see SC 8/204/10180

For the writ to the sheriff ordering him to empanel the jury at a day and place of which he will subsequently be informed, see SC 8/204/10182

For the writ assigning Doncaster and others to enquire of the matter, see SC 8/204/10183

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.570 (order to restore the land)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333734/

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