John de Segrave. de Segrave John King and council. John de Segrave states that the...

Petitioners

John de Segrave.

Name(s)

de Segrave, John

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

John de Segrave states that the King had granted him the wardship of the body and lands of Hugh de Plesci, son and heir of Hugh de Plescy, and that it has been found by inquisition before the Escheator that Margaret, widow of Hugh de Plescy the father, took more than her reasonable dower from these lands. The Escheator has taken the surplus property into the King's hand, and John asks that he might have it.

Nature of endorsement

The land is to be taken back into the hands of the King and re-valued. And the Sub-escheator who then was, and all those who were jurors for the first valuation are to come before the Chancellor and answer to the King for the concealment; and a remedy is to be provided there both for the King and for the petitioner etc.

Places mentioned

Hook Norton, Oxfordshire.

People mentioned

Hugh de Plesci (Plessy), the son

Hugh de Plescy (Plessy), the father

Margaret [de Plescy (Plessy)], wife of Hugh de Plescy (Plessy), the father.

For a related petition from this petitioner see SC 8/74/3653

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.302 (restoration of lands seized to Margaret, as she has been found not to have usurped them, subject to a possible re-assessment of her share)
• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.29 (no.41) (full edition of petition and of Latin summary on parliament roll)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.161a-b (Latin summary of petition 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 12, appendix, no.21 (full edition and translation of original petition)