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Ralph Coterel. Coterel Ralph King and council. [Petition in two parts:]1) Coterel...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E231

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Reference
SC 8/316/E231
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Ralph Coterel.
Name(s)
Coterel, Ralph
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[Petition in two parts:]1) Coterel warns the king concerning the wardship and marriage of the manor of Darley as the king should have the custody of the heirs and lands of Darley as they are held of the king in chief of the honour of the Peak and have been so held for 100 years until the king was deceived by his bailiffs, though Coterel has since recovered the king's seisin. Now the Snittertons have put a bill to the council requesting delivery of a moiety of the manor by virtue of an inquisition taken and returned into Chancery which was taken with all the allies of Ralph de Snitterton.2) Coterel further shows that Snitterton has sold the woods of Darley, and dowered his wife with a third of the manor of Darley, and others are dowered of lands when they ought not to be.
Nature of endorsement
To the Exchequer, and the treasurer and barons are to do what they consider ought to be done.Coterel.S [Exchequer].
Places mentioned
Darley, [Derbyshire]
High Peak, [Derbyshire].
People mentioned
Alice de Kendale (Kendal)
John de Derleye (Darley)
Ralph de Snyterton (Snitterton)
Alice [de Snyterton (Snitterton)], wife of Ralph de Snitterton
Robert Buzon, bailiff of the king
Thomas de Byleye, married to the daughter of Robert Buzon
Piers de Bolond, tenant of Robert Buzon
Richard de Buestones, married to the sister of Ralph de Snitterton
Thomas de Buestones, uncle of Richard de Buestones
Juliane [de Derley (Darley)]
Henry de Derley (Darley)
Master Richard de Haveryngg (Havering).
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.
Related material

For a related petition by Snitterton, see SC 8/316/E239

For the petition by the Snittertons, see SC 8/316/E230

For the petition by Alice de Kendal, see SC 8/316/E229

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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/C9529283/

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