? No Petitioner named Writ of Edward I to Walter de Gloucestria, Escheator South...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

Writ of Edward I to Walter de Gloucestria, Escheator South of the Trent, asking him to provide John de Suthewell with a wardship worth £10 or thereabouts annually for his long service, and to inform the Treasurer of the wardship and the age of the heir, so that he can deliver the wardship to him by his advice and ordinance.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Lanercost, [Cumberland].

People mentioned

[Edward I], King of England

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

John de Suthewell (Southwell)

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

For the petition to which this writ was formerly attached, see SC 8/237/11812

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.486-7 (calendar of this writ)
• 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 writ and associated petition)