Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster. Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster Edmund Chancellor....

Petitioners

Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster.

Name(s)

Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, Edmund

Addressees

Chancellor.

Nature of request

Lord Edmund makes four requests to the Chancellor:1) He requests a writ for an inquisition granted to him by the King to ascertain whether Alan Fitz John, Laurence de Neutone and John Blanke, forester of the Forest of Pickering, who are accused of the death of John Cokewald, who is accused of several crimes, killed him when they caught him in a crime and he fled, or feloniously planned to attack him.2) He requests a writ to the Treasurer to let the justices in the pleas of trespass in the Forest of Pickering have the rolls of the last eyre of Robert de Nevile there, to assist them.3) He states that the King's men from the bailiwick of St Briavels are wrongly entering the franchise of Monmouth to attach people there, and requests a remedy.4) He requests a writ of escheat for Thomas de Flyxton in the vill of Scalby.

Nature of endorsement

[On face, to first petition] They are to be put in prison, and afterwards there is to be an inquiry by the Sheriff and the Coroner, and it is to be returned to the King.[To second] It is to be ordered that they are to have the rolls, provided that they return them before the feast of St John.[To third] The Bailiff is to be written to about this.[To fourth] It is to be done.[On dorse] To the Chancellor.

Places mentioned

Pickering forest, [North Riding of Yorkshire]

St Briavels liberty, [Gloucestershire]

Monmouth, [Monmouthshire, Wales]

Scalby, [North Riding of] Yorkshire.

People mentioned

Alan Fitz John, forester of Pickering Forest

Laurence de Neutone (Newton), forester of Pickering Forest

John Blanke (Blanc), forester of Pickering Forest

John Cokewald

Robert de Nevile (Neville)

Thomas de Flyxton (Flixton).

For a related petition, see SC 8/110/5466

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1279-1288, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.221 (order to give Edmund seisin of the lands of Thomas de Flyxton in Scalby)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. I, Hen III - Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1261 (inquisition into the lands held by Thomas de Flyxton in Scalby)
• Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. V, Edw III, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LXXVI, 1958), pp.cxliv-v (entry b) (full edition of petition)
• The Honor and Forest of Pickering, North Riding Record Society, new series,, Ed. R.B. Turton, (North Riding Record Society, 1896), pp.233-4 (full edition and translation of petition)