Christine de Mareis (Marish). de Mareis (Marish) Christine [Petition in two parts:]1)...

Petitioners

Christine de Mareis (Marish).

Name(s)

de Mareis (Marish), Christine

Nature of request

[Petition in two parts:]1) Mareis requests remedy as she is disturbed in her suit against Valence who holds the manors of Rathmore and Athlacca and which Mareis claims as her right by descent from her brother. Valence has a protection, though women cannot have protection as they cannot do the king service. She has pursued this matter before the king.2) She requests that the king's ministers are assigned to enquire of those malefactors who entered her park that she holds of the king to destroy her venison in contempt of the king and to her great damage.1)

Nature of endorsement

Concerning the first, it is certified that Valence is in England so that her protection should cease, and the petitioner should sue against her if she considers it expedient.2) Concerning the second, she should have a writ in Chancery to the sheriff that he should enquire of this, and the malefactors should be attached.

Places mentioned

Rathmore, [County Kildare], Ireland

Athlacca, [County Limerick], Ireland

Harrow, [Middlesex]

St Albans, [Hertfordshire].

People mentioned

Agnes de Valence

[Walter de Mareis (Marish)], brother of the petitioner.

For another petition by the same petitioner in part on the same matter, see SC 8/9/421

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.305-6 (order concerning the justices assigned to hear the case, and order to proceed notwithstanding the protection)
• 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), 1305, autumn parliament, appendix, evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery enrolments and elsewhere, no.40 (summary of response in close rolls to SC 8/9/421 relating also to this petition)