John de Sutton; Margaret de Sutton, wife of John de Sutton. de Sutton; de Sutton...

Petitioners

John de Sutton; Margaret de Sutton, wife of John de Sutton.

Name(s)

de Sutton; de Sutton, John; Margaret

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

John and Margaret de Sutton request remedy because the Despensers kept John imprisoned at Westminster on the pretence that he had been an adherent of the Earl of Lancaster, until he made the younger Despenser a charter of feoffment of the castle and town of Dudley and the manors of Sedgley, Kingswinford, Rowley Somery, Prestwood, Dinas Powys and Eakring, and enfeoffed to Ingham the castle of Shocklach and lordship of Malpas, to Croyser 60s rent in Denton, and to Waukelyn the manor of Ashton.

Nature of endorsement

Certain men should be assigned in Chancery to enquire of the people of the region concerning the imprisonment, the charter and deeds made, the manors, the time and reason. And the charters, deeds and other necessary items should be returned in Chancery and the King certified.

Places mentioned

Westminster, Middlesex

Dudley, Worcestershire

Sedgley, Staffordshire

Swinford, (Kingswinford), Staffordshire

Rowley Somery manor, Staffordshire

Prestwood, Staffordshire

Bradfield, Berkshire

Dinas Powys, [Glamorgan], Wales

Eakring, Nottinghamshire

Shocklach, Cheshire

Malpas, Cheshire

[Denton], Huntingdonshire

Ashton, Northamptonshire.

People mentioned

Hugh le Despenser the elder

Hugh [le Despenser] the younger

[Thomas of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster

[John de Bohun], Earl of Hereford

Oliver de Ingham

[Simon Croyser]

Thomas de Waukelyn.

For a related petition from the same petitioners see SC 8/168/8384