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Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, son and heir of Michael de la Pole, late Earl...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/250/12498

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Reference
SC 8/250/12498
Date
[1398]
Description
Petitioners
Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, son and heir of Michael de la Pole, late Earl of Suffolk.
Name(s)
de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, Michael
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
De la Pole requests that whereas the King granted his father the reversion of the manor of Costessey with other lands and rents after the death of Isabel, Countess of Suffolk to have to him and his heirs forever in exchange for yearly rents of 400 marks and £50, which rents his father gave to him and his heirs to be taken yearly from the ancient custom in the port of Hull, which lands and rents in his father's possession by the said exchange the King seized into his hand by judgment returned against his father at the parliament held at Westminster in the tenth [sic, for eleventh] year of the King's reign which was annulled in your last parliament, that he can have execution by writs of scire facias to the tenants of £20 yearly rent from Orford castle, 40 marks for the fee farm of the manor of Stradbroke and of the manors of Benhall and Faxfleet.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Costessey, [Norfolk]
Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Westminster
Orford, [Suffolk]
Stradbroke, Suffolk
Benhall, Suffolk
Faxfleet, [East Riding of] Yorkshire.
People mentioned
Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, father of the petitioner
Isabel [de Ufford], Countess of Suffolk.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1398, since this is the date of the Chancery warrant with which it was formerly enclosed (C 81/574 no.12148A).
Related material

For the Chancery warrant with which it was formerly enclosed see no.12148A of C 81/574

For a related petition see SC 8/251/12511

For another petition enclosed in the same Chancery warrant see SC 8/250/12455

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440104/

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