Cecily de Kyrketon (Kirton), widow of Robert de Kyrketon (Kirton). de Kyrketon (Kirton)...

Petitioners

Cecily de Kyrketon (Kirton), widow of Robert de Kyrketon (Kirton).

Name(s)

de Kyrketon (Kirton), Cecily

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Cecily, widow of Robert de Kyrketon, states that she brought a writ of right against Margaret, widow of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall and Agnes, widow of Thomas de Bromholm, in Margaret's court for one third of two thirds of a messuage and nine bovates of land in Kirton in Lindsey, but that Margaret has said that she cannot do justice to her because she holds the soke of Kirton in dower of the King's assignment, and that she cannot do justice in respect of the land that Agnes holds as, if Agnes died, the escheat would be to the King and not to her. Cecily requests the King's grace that he will do justice to her.

Nature of endorsement

[On dorse of SC 8/257/12831] Coram rege.She is to sue a writ to have the case recorded for the cause contained in the petition, [returnable] before the justices of the Bench.[None on dorse of SC 8/257/12830]

Places mentioned

Kirton in Lindsey, [Lincolnshire].

People mentioned

Robert de Kyrketon (Kirton)

Edmund [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall

Margaret, [Countess of Cornwall], widow of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall

Thomas de Bromholm

Agnes [de Bromholm], widow of Thomas de Bromholm.

For the writ formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/257/12831

• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.119-20 (no.193) (full edition of original petition, related writ and 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.166a-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.203 (full edition and translation of petition and related writ)