Constance de Biern (Bearn); the attorney of Constance de Bearn. de Biern (Bearn)...

Petitioners

Constance de Biern (Bearn); the attorney of Constance de Bearn.

Name(s)

de Biern (Bearn), Constance

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

the attorney of Constance de Bearn

Nature of request

Petition in three parts:1) Constance de Biern requests permission to appoint general attorneys to pursue her business in the courts of England, and for the Constable of Bordeaux to receive these attorneys before him.2) Her attorney asks that the Treasurer might order the sheriffs of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire to cease the demands that they are making of Constance, on the Treasurer's instructions, for scutage for Wales, for a certain term, so that the attorney can examine the rolls of the Exchequer for the truth about this scutage, and consult his lady about what she knows of the matter if necessary.3) He also asks the Treasurer to order the same sheriffs to cease their distraints on his lady's goods and chattels because she did not appear with a force in Scotland in the previous summer, until he has been able to explain this business to his lady, and can answer more surely in the matter, when he knows his lady's will.

Nature of endorsement

The first petition is answered in this way: she is to have a writ of Chancery to master Richard de Haveryng, Seneschal of Bordeaux, to receive her attorneys, to last for one year.To the other two petitions: he is to have respite until a month after Easter.

Places mentioned

[Gascony, France]

Yorkshire

Nottinghamshire

Wales

Scotland.

People mentioned

Richard de Haveryng (Havering), Seneschal of Bordeaux.

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/338/E1242