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Floria de Belhous (Bellhouse) widow of Thomas de Bellhouse. de Belhous (Bellhouse)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E235

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Reference
SC 8/316/E235
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Floria de Belhous (Bellhouse) widow of Thomas de Bellhouse.
Name(s)
de Belhous (Bellhouse), Floria
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Belhouse requests grace and remedy and that she be discharged of demands made on her for the debts of her husband as she purchased with her husband the manors of Stanway and Ramsden Bellhouse and for the debts that her husband owed from his long term as sheriff of Cambridgeshire, the late treasurer having extended the manors for the payment of the debt, as she purchased those tenements as much as her husband and she does not see why she should be charged for them.
Nature of endorsement
She should go to the Exchequer and let it be considered there if she was enfeoffed before her husband was sheriff or after, and if it is before then she should be discharged, and if after then let the debt be attermined according to the discretion of the treasurer and barons having regard to the sustenance of the wife.S [Exchequer].
Places mentioned
Stanway, [Essex]
Rammesdene (Ramsden Bellhouse), [Essex].
People mentioned
Thomas de Belhous (Bellhouse), late husband of the petitioner
William de la Marche, late Treasurer.
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 another petition from the same petitioner on a related matter, see SC 8/1/31

For a related petition from the petitioner's son, see SC 8/83/4133

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/C9529287/

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