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Jacomine de Merk, widow of Robert de .... de Merk Jacomine King and council. [Top...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/331/15703

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SC 8/331/15703
Date
[c. 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Jacomine de Merk, widow of Robert de ....
Name(s)
de Merk, Jacomine
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[Top left-hand corner missing] Jacomine de Merk requests remedy because Despenser has released Lachelee from prison. Jacomine brought a writ of oyer and terminer before Maddingley and his companions against Lachelee, by which he was to be imprisoned by the sheriff of Essex until he had made grace to her and the King.
Nature of endorsement
She should have a writ to cause the record of the said plea to come before the King, and there justice shall be done according to the contents of the petition.
Places mentioned
Essex.
People mentioned
Robert de [...]
Robert de Maddigle (Maddingley), justice
John de Lachelee
sheriff of Essex
Hugh le Despenser the son.
Note
The petition dates to c. 1320. In 1319 there was an oyer and terminer into the petitioner's complaint against Lachelee and others (CPR 1317-20, p. 358). When the decision was made to disinherit the Despensers, one of the charges laid against them was that the younger Despenser had released Lachelee from imprisonment at Colchester for a trespass against the lady of Merk before he had agreed with her for damages (CCR 1318-23, p. 494).
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/17/832

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Chancery File 331.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.147 (order to release Waleys on mainprise for above offence) & p.494 (decision to disinherit Despensers, including that Lachelee was imprisoned at Colchester for a trespass against the lady of Merk when the younger Despenser released him, before he had agreed with the lady for damages)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), pp.358-9 (oyer and terminer into petitioner's complaint against Lachelee, John le Waleys and others) & p.422 (1320 pardon to Waleys for above offence)
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