John de Suthewell (Southwell). de Suthewell (Southwell) John [Walter Langton], Bishop...

Petitioners

John de Suthewell (Southwell).

Name(s)

de Suthewell (Southwell), John

Addressees

[Walter Langton], Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield & Treasurer of England.

Nature of request

John de Suthewell states that the King sent a writ to Walter de Gloucestria, Escheator South of the Trent, to provide him with a wardship worth £10 annually, and a wardship worth 8 marks annually is currently in the King's hand through the death of Robert de Merston. He asks the Treasurer to tell Adam de Osegoteby to send him the valuation made of Robert's lands and tenements, together with the transcript of the writ to the Escheator, and to give John grace of the wardship together with the marriage, for his long service to the King.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

People mentioned

[Edward I], King of England

Walter de Gloucestria (Gloucester), Escheator [South of] the Trent

Robert de Merston

Ralph de Gousill

Adam de Osegoteby (Osgodby).

For the writ to the Escheator mentioned in this petition, see SC 8/237/11813

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.486-7 (writ to the Escheator, asking him to provide the petitioner with a wardship worth £10 annually)
• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. I, Edw I, 1272-1307, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.552 (order to the Escheator to take into the King's hands the lands of the late Robert de Merston)
• 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), 1307, Hilary parliament, appendix, evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery and exchequer enrolments and other sources, no.9 (calendar of petition in the context of the writ to the Escheator)