Thomas Wake of Liddell. Wake Thomas King and council. Wake recites the descent of...

Petitioners

Thomas Wake of Liddell.

Name(s)

Wake, Thomas

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Wake recites the descent of the manors of Knaresborough and Boroughbridge from the time of Henry II, and requests restitution of the manors, since they were taken into the King's hand by King John while Eustace, son and heir of Robert de Stuteville, was in his mother's womb, and so could not claim his inheritance.1)

Nature of endorsement

Before the King.2) The treasurer and chamberlains were ordered to search the remembrances of the Exchequer to discover the reason the manors had come into the King's hand, when, in whose time, and if any of the King's progenitors were seised of the same manors before the time of King John, and it should likewise be searched in Chancery between now and the next Parliament.

Places mentioned

Knaresborough, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Pontesburgh (Boroughbridge), [West Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Henry [II], King of England

[Matilda], Empress

William Destotevill (de Stuteville)

Richard [I], King of England

John, King of England

Robert Destotevill (de Stuteville), son and heir of William de Stuteville

Nicholas Destotevill (de Stuteville), brother of William de Stuteville and heir apparent of Robert de Stuteville

Eustace [de Stuteville], son and heir of Robert de Stuteville

Joan [de Stuteville], daughter and heir of Nicholas de Stuteville

Baldwin [Wake], son and heir of Joan de Stuteville

John [Wake], son and heir of Baldwin Wake and father of the petitioner.

For a related petition see SC 8/12/575

For documents belonging to this petition see SC 8/331/15693