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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Margaret Rote, wife of William Rote. Rote Margaret [Not specified]. Margaret requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/308/15355
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/308/15355
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1385]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Margaret Rote, wife of William Rote.
- Name(s)
- Rote, Margaret
- Addressees
- [Not specified].
- Nature of request
- Margaret requests remedy against Brownfleet concerning lands in Newbald and North Cave. Thomas de Newbald owed £60 by statute merchant to Hotham who gave it to Burghes who gave it to Margaret and the executors of his will. After her husband's death Margaret married Rote and together they pursued the statute in Lillesdon's name at London before Metam, Resceby, Ardern, Resceby and others, agreeing to pay Lillesdon 4 marks, and they were extended a messuage and bovate in Newbald and meadow in North Cave of Newbald's lands for 47 years in full payment of the £60. Brownfleet then purchased these lands from Rote and Margaret for the said term with all the right that Waldeby had or should have in them (as next heir to the lands as was found by inquisition taken at Newbald) and from whom Rote and Margaret purchased a release of the lands for 10 marks to Brownfleet's use. Brownfleet should have paid them 80 marks for this land, and was bound to do so by an obligation of 100 marks, but he only paid 39 marks, paying 25 marks in their name to Lillesdon, who should only have received the said 4 marks. Because the residue was still due to them, they were all granted a day at St Martin-le-Grand on Friday before Martinmas in the 9th year of Richard II [1385], on which day Brownfleet caused Rote and Margaret to be imprisoned at Newgate on a false charge, causing William, for fear of death, to surrender the obligation and a release made thereon, because of which imprisonment Rote died soon after. She also makes further complaints against Brownfleet involving lands in Newbald.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Brownfleet should be summoned by writ to be before the council on a day to be named by the chancellor, and when the parties have been heard, full justice will be done.2) Because Brownfleet did not pay Rote and Margaret, Rote sued writs until outlawed, to his great damage.
- Places mentioned
- Ellerker, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- London
- Newbald, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- North Cave, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Henlee [unidentified]
- St Martin-le-Grand, London
- Newgate, [London]
- Yorkshire.
- People mentioned
- William Rote of Ellerker
- Thomas de Newbald
- Alan de Hothom (Hotham)
- Roger de Burghes, cousin of Alan de Hotham and late husband of the petitioner
- John de Lillesdon, executor of Robert Kerringham
- Robert Kerringham, co-executor of Alan de Hotham
- Thomas de Metam, knight
- William de Resceby
- Hugh de Ardern
- John de Resceby
- Thomas Brounflete (Brownfleet)
- Thomas de Waldeby
- Richard [II], King of England
- Peter de Santon
- John de Thorlee, servant of Thomas Brownfleet.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1385 or later since it refers to events of this year.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9528952/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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