Marmaduke Basset. Basset Marmaduke King and council. Marmaduke Basset requests remedy...

Petitioners

Marmaduke Basset.

Name(s)

Basset, Marmaduke

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Marmaduke Basset requests remedy because Wessington gave the manor of Offerton to his grandfather and the heirs of his body, but after his death William Basset entered as son and heir and alienated the estate, depriving him of his inheritance. The petitioner has often sued to the bishop of Durham for a writ of formedon.

Nature of endorsement

The bishop should be ordered by writ of Chancery containing the request contained in this petition to do justice to Marmaduke.

Places mentioned

Offerton, County Durham.

People mentioned

Walter de Wessyngton (Wessington)

Marmaduke Basset, grandfather of the petitioner

Isabel [Basset], daughter of Walter de Wessington and wife of Marmaduke Basset

William Basset, son and heir of Marmaduke Basset

Bishop of Durham.

For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/39/1935

• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.235-6 (no.173) (edition of petition with references)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.14a (no.5) (copy of petition)
• 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.13-30, no.5 (summary of references)