Christine Robby, widow of Simon Robby. Robby Christine King. The same Christine requests...

Petitioners

Christine Robby, widow of Simon Robby.

Name(s)

Robby, Christine

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The same Christine requests remedy, stating that an inquisition lately granted to the Earl of Hereford to enquire into which tenements were held by Adam de Stratton of the earl's manor of Sevenhampton wrongly found that a meadow called Meadowcroft in Stratton St Margaret was held of the earl, when it is held of the aforesaid Christine at a rent of one penny a year.

Nature of endorsement

[on face] Wiltshire.[on dorse] Let her claim the meadow or tenement from the Earl of Hereford, who has it by the enquiry as his free tenement and escheat.

Places mentioned

Sevenhampton, [Wiltshire]

Stratton St Margaret, [Wiltshire]

Wiltshire.

People mentioned

[Simon Robby, late husband of the petitioner]

[Humphrey de Bohun], Earl of Hereford

Adam de Stratton.

For another petition from this petitioner, clearly the one of which this petition forms a continuation, see SC 8/219/10924

For the record of the petitioner's subsequent case against the Earl of Hereford see m.26 of KB 27/125

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.53b (summary of petition and response 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.115 (full edition and translation of petition)