Emma de Kent, widow of John de Kent. de Kent Emma [None given]. Kent requests that...

Petitioners

Emma de Kent, widow of John de Kent.

Name(s)

de Kent, Emma

Addressees

[None given].

Nature of request

Kent requests that it is commanded that the manor of Dysart be rendered to her as her husband and her were jointly enfeoffed of the manor by Pipard, but afterwards brought a writ of cessavit per biennium against her late husband, and as he was in prison in Oxford he won his case by John de Kent's defaults. She has now proceeded to have the record and process brought before the council of the king before the last parliament, to which Berwick answered that she come before the next parliament with her charter of feoffment which she has done.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Dysart, [County Westmeath]

Drogheda, [Ireland].

People mentioned

Ralph Pipard

John de Kent, late husband of the petitioner

John de Berewik (Berwick).

For a related petition by the petitioner's husband, see SC 8/55/2701

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/120/5956

For a related document see SC 8/55/2705B

For a copy of a charter formerly enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/324/E633E

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.449 (reference to the petitioner's husband's prosecution for robbery and his surrender to the prison of Oxford)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.295 (order to the justiciary to restore the lands of the petitioner if they were taken into the king's hand for specified reasons)
• Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.100 (calendar of petition)