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Edmund de Mortemer (Mortimer). de Mortemer (Mortimer) Edmund King and council. Mortemer...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/314/E117

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Reference
SC 8/314/E117
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Edmund de Mortemer (Mortimer).
Name(s)
de Mortemer (Mortimer), Edmund
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Mortemer requests grace and remedy as the custody of the messuages, lands and heirs of Brompton ought to pertain to him for Brompton held by knights' fee from him, but the same have been taken into the king's hand for a petit sergeanty that only came to the king by escheat from the earl of Shrewsbury, and nothing has been done on previous writs sent to the treasurer and barons on this, he having sued for 6 years.
Nature of endorsement
To the Exchequer, and let the process be viewed etc.S [Exchequer].
Places mentioned
Shropshire.
People mentioned
Brian de Brompton
Roger de Belehem [Montgomery], Earl of Shrewsbury.
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. I, Edw I, 1272-1307, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.349 (order to the escheator to take the Brompton lands into the king's hand)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.308 (grant to Edward de Cornubia of the custody of the Brompton heirs and their land).
  • 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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.2 (summary of this file)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529168/

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