Isabel Barage, widow of William de Barage, servant of the king;2) Abbot of St Augustine's,...

Petitioners

Isabel Barage, widow of William de Barage, servant of the king;2) Abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury;3) Prior of Lenton;4) John de Fleming of Nottingham;5) Abbot of Furness;6) Lape and Lapin;7) John Marmion;8) Burgesses of Appleby;9) John de Neuburgh (Newborough);10) Abbot of Meaux.

Name(s)

Barage; de Fleming; Marmion; de Neuburgh (Newborough), Isabel; John; Lape; Lapin; John; John

Addressees

King [and council].

Occupation

Abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury; Prior of Lenton; Abbot of Furness; Abbot of Meaux

Nature of request

[A roll of petitions by different petitioners:]1) Barage requests remedy as all her late husband's goods have been seized into the king's hand until her late husband was quit of what he owed to the king, and one Arnold Barage, the 'nori' of her late husband has taken wine and a coffer from her.2) Barage requests that she can have the wine that her husband bought at Portsmouth and which the treasurer took to Kingston, or that she can have the money for the same as he refuses restoration or payment to her as executor.3) The abbot of St Augustine's requests that the king not suffer his church to be disinherited and will command that the year and a day's waste and the maintenance of the land of his people, felon and fugitive be specified in a charter and allowed as though they have enjoyed the right by the special grant of the king it was not allowed in a session of quo warranto and continues to be disallowed.4) The prior of Lenton requests that the treasurer be commanded to deliver the seal of the house which was put in the treasury at the request of the prior. The king has commanded the treasurer to deliver it but he refuses.5) Fleming requests that he can be release from the Tower by sufficient mainprise to come at a certain day to make account for his time as bailiff of High Peak, and make settlement for anything that he is found to owe the king. He has been imprisoned by the treasurer without making final account [A marginal notes that this is vacated].6) The abbot of Furness requests that he can have restitution or allowance at the Exchequer for the £20 that he was wrongfully charged in excess of the £10 of which he was amerced before Cressingham in the eyre of Lancashire [A marginal notes that this is vacated].7) Lape and Lapin request that they can be paid as they have noting to live on, they being changers, controllers and assayers of the mint at London and Canterbury by commandment of the king for the last three years, and have received no payment.8) Marmion requests grace and remedy concerning a recognisance of debt made by Nottingham to him, for after Nottingham's death Fitz John came and made him a writing of the same debt, but afterwards there were problems in the Exchequer for which Marmion was imprisoned as he unable to have a sergeant-at-law for fear of the lordship of Leicester.9) The burgesses of Appleby request that they be granted confirmation of their charters according to the points and specialties granted to those of York. They also request remedy as the treasurer has amerced them for failure to pay their farm at Michaelmas when it is paid only Easter. They request pontage to repair the bridge as no merchandise is sold in the vill because the bridge is so ruinous, and vill is consequently impoverished.10) Neuburgh requests remedy and the seisin of 10 marks of rent in Tarrant Keyneston of which he was enfeoffed by Keynes. After the death of Keynes he was disseised by the escheator who would not redeliver seisin to him after an inquisition found for Neuburgh. The escheator's successor delivered seisin but he was again disseised by the treasurer because Keynes's heir was a ward of the king. He has lost a large sum of rent.

Nature of endorsement

[The petitions continue on the dorse:]11) The abbot of Meaux requests that the covenants made for the exchange of the town of Meaux be fulfilled as he has sued at great expense.12) The abbot requests that he can have a charter specifying his right to the warren in his manor of Pocklington.13) He makes another request for allowance concerning the manor of Weelsby.14) He requests amends for the excessive sums demanded from them for the manors.[The petition is then followed by a memorandum of the value of things taken to the king's use with a sum total and additional details].

Places mentioned

Portsmouth, [Hampshire]

Kingston upon Thames, [Surrey]

London

Canterbury, [Kent]

Kent

Lenton, [Nottinghamshire]

Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire]

Tower of London, [London]

Furness, [Lancashire]

Lancashire

Appleby, [Westmorland]

Tarrant Keyneston, [Dorset]

Dover, [Kent]

Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]

Pocklington, [East Riding of Yorkshire]

Wyvelesby (Weelsby), [Lincolnshire]

Meaux, [East Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

William de Barage, servant of the king

William de March, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Treasurer

John de Berewik (Berwick), [justice] in eyre in Kent

John de Langeton (Langton)

Hugh de Cressingham, justice in eyre

Henry de Notingham (Nottingham), knight

Henry Fitz John

John Bartolf

Adam de Stratton

Piers de Leycestre (Leicester)

Henry le Bray, escheator

Malcolm [de Harleye], escheator

Philip de . . .

John Lambyn

Robert Sterre

Walter Gubbe

John Ferhsich

Thomas de Kent

John Bachelor

William Sorweles

Thomas Cros (Cross)

John Lucas

John Gubbe

Hugh Pourte

Julian le Juviene

William Abel

Henry le White

Henry de Syngreth

Roger Brunyng

John Madefreyt

Robert de Mocking

Adam de Fuleham (Fulham)

Richard de Chikewelle (Chigwell)

Alexander, clerk of the treasurer

Simon le Conestable (Constable)

Philip de Wynelesby.

For another petition by the petitioners of part 7 on the same matter but in Latin, see SC 8/321/E458