Joan de Peshale, widow of Adam de Peshale, and John de Peshale, son of Adam de Peshale....

Petitioners

Joan de Peshale, widow of Adam de Peshale, and John de Peshale, son of Adam de Peshale.

Name(s)

de Peshale; de Peshale, Joan; John

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Joan, widow of Adam de Peshale, asks that, as her husband was never forfeited in such a way that his heir should be disinherited or that she should be deprived of her dower, she might be given her dower from the lands that were Adam's and were seized into the King's hand, and that his heir might have his inheritance.John de Peshale asks that he might have the term of the church of Sandon, of which church he was seised for two years before his father's death.

Nature of endorsement

attorneys for the Joan, Richard and John mentioned here: John de Knyghtle and Thomas de Offeleye alternatively, to prosecute the business mentioned here.

Places mentioned

Sandon, [Staffordshire].

People mentioned

Adam de Peshale

Richard [de Peshale], heir of Adam de Peshale

John de Knyghtle

Thomas de Offeleye.

For a related petition concerning Sandon, see SC 8/244/12170

For a related petition from Joan and her son, see SC 8/172/8580

For a related petition from John de Peshale, see SC 8/13/646

For the chancery warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see no.18336 of C 81/319

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VII, 1345-1348, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.181 (commission to inquire into the alleged theft and concealment of goods belonging to Adam de Peshale, which should be forfeit to the King, and commission to inquire into a manor claimed by John de Eyton and seized by the King after the forfeiture of Adam de Peshale)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1348-1350, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.162 (commission to examine John Fitz Adam's claims concerning the church of Sandon)