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Isabel de Forz, Countess of Aumale. de Forz, Countess of Aumale Isabel King. The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/276/13777

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This record is about the Isabel de Forz, Countess of Aumale. de Forz, Countess of Aumale Isabel King. The... dating from [? 1281] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/276/13777
Date
[? 1281]
Description
Petitioners
Isabel de Forz, Countess of Aumale.
Name(s)
de Forz, Countess of Aumale, Isabel
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Countess of Aumale requests: 1) delivery of her woods of Lymington, taken into the King's hand at the last eyre at Winchester for waste made by Earl Baldwin's keepers when he was a ward of Henry III, as she requested at the last parliament, and that Clifford be ordered by writ to do nothing in this matter, because the steward of the New Forest can do nothing without the original writ;2) remedy against the foresters of the New Forest who distrain and attach at will in her borough of Lymington and hundred of Christchurch, which they should not do because the borough and hundred answer before justices errant and are not within the ancient bounds of the forest;3) that the decision made in the last eyre concerning the hambling of dogs in Lymington be upheld against the foresters who demand the hambling of dogs which should not be hambled;4) remedy against the foresters who distrain her tenants for pannage and other issues found in her wood for the past four years when the wood was not in the King's hand.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] 1) It should be enquired into and referred.2) It is recorded that no attachment should be made within the borough or hundred.3) Response as above.4) It should be enquired into and amended.5) Concerning the coroner in the island: the judgement returned should stand and execution should be demanded.[On dorse] Valence and Gef'.
Places mentioned
Lymington, [Hampshire]
Winchester, [Hampshire]
New Forest, [Hampshire]
Christchurch hundred, [Hampshire].
People mentioned
Baldwin [de Reviers], Earl [of Devon], brother of the petitioner
Henry [III], King of England
Roger de Clifford, justice of the forest
William Valent' (Valence)
[Laurence] Gef'.
Note
Dated on the guard to? 1281, with reference to CPR 1272-81, p. 472, a 1281 commission to enquire into the status of the wood of Lymington and the countess of Aumale's right to the same, and to CCR 1279-88, p. 88, an order to steward of the New Forest to keep safe the countess of Aumale's wood in Lymington until the next Parliament.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1279-1288, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.88 (order to steward of the New Forest to keep safe the countess of Aumale's wood in Lymington until the next parliament)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. I, 1272-1281, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.472 (commission to enquire into the status of the wood of Lymington)
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