Joan Maufe, formerly the wife of Thomas de Ippegrave. Maufe Joan King and Council....

Petitioners

Joan Maufe, formerly the wife of Thomas de Ippegrave.

Name(s)

Maufe, Joan

Addressees

King and Council.

Nature of request

Joan, late the wife of Thomas de Ippegrave, states that the king has granted her for life ten pounds a year from the town of Winchelsea, but that the bailiffs, claiming that the town is badly destroyed by the sea, make payment so poorly that the ten pounds do not amount to as much as ten marks per year to her benefit. Therefore William Maufe and the said Joan, now his wife, request that they may hold the town for their lifetime on payment of the farm to the king, and that the ten pounds a year may be allowed to them.

Nature of endorsement

Sussex.The petition of Joan late the wife of Thomas of Hyppegrave.Before the lord king.She should be content with what she has.And if the bailiffs do not pay let distraint be made.Declare from which Winchelsea she seeks this, New or Old.

Places mentioned

New Winchelsea, [Sussex]

Old Winchelsea, [Sussex].

People mentioned

Thomas de Ippegrave, former husband of the petitioner

bailiffs of Winchelsea

William Maufe, husband of the petitioner.

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/274/13689

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. I, 1272-1281, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.257 (original grant of rent)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.56a (response to related 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 02, appendix, no.148 (full edition and translation of petition)