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

Catalogue reference: SC 8/311/15502

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Reference
SC 8/311/15502
Date
[1327]
Description
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.
Note
The petition dates to 1327 when inquisitions were held in response (CIM 1307-49, no.965 and no.1000).
Related material

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

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.965 (Berkshire inquisition in accordance with petition) & no.1000 (inquisitions into imprisonment of Sutton by Despenser in accordance with petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682512/

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