Joan de Passele, widow of Edmund de Passele. de Passele Joan King and council. Passele...

Petitioners

Joan de Passele, widow of Edmund de Passele.

Name(s)

de Passele, Joan

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Passele requests remedy as Margaret de Vescy, with whom her husband had been living, when he was charged by his confessor to return to Passele, feloniously poisoned him and his son William, and tried to kill Edmund his son and Wallet his servant at Couldon for which matters she was indicted. She was wrongfully mainprised and acquired a charter of pardon and procured an acquittal, and detains Passele from her lands in dower and the heir from his lands by threats.

Nature of endorsement

She should sue, if she wishes, for the death of her husband, and concerning her dower she should sue at the common law.

Places mentioned

Couldon, Surrey.

People mentioned

Edmund de Passele, late husband of the petitioner

Margaret [de Vesqui (Vescy)], widow of William de Vescy

William [de Passele], son of Edmund de Passele

Edmund [de Passele], son of Edmund de Passele

John Wallet, servant of Edmund de Passele.

For another petition in which Margaret de Vescy is apparently recorded as the wife of Edmund de Passele, see SC 8/66/3272

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.182 (order to the escheator to restore the lands of Edmund Passele)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.148, 295 (references to the petitioner as a widow, but with no obvious relation to this petition)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. VIII, 10-20 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1913), no.32 (inquisition of Edmund de Passele)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.315 (pardon to an individual for the death of Edmund Passele, though its relationship to this petition is unclear)