Robert de Buri (Bury) and Elizabeth de Buri (Bury), his wife. de Buri (Bury) Robert;...

Petitioners

Robert de Buri (Bury) and Elizabeth de Buri (Bury), his wife.

Name(s)

de Buri (Bury), Robert; Buri (Bury); Elizabeth

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Robert de Buri and Elizabeth his wife state that they were assigned lands in Hampshire and Wiltshire as Elizabeth's dower from the tenements of Warin Maudut, her late husband, by assignment of the king, and that they delivered the lands in Wiltshire to Thomas Maudut, Elizabeth's son, who is now dead, as can be seen from the evidence attached to this petition. After the end of these five years he continued to hold the lands until he died, with the permission of Robert and Elizabeth, but with no manner of deed. After his death the king seized these lands into his hand with Thomas's other lands, and delivered them to Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester, so that they could have no remedy. They request a remedy now.

Nature of endorsement

Faithful people are to be assigned in Chancery to inquire, in the presence etc, into the contents of the petition etc. and into other necessary articles etc., and the Treasurer and Chamberlains, or any others in whose keeping the memoranda which were Thomas's are, are to be ordered [to search] whether the complainants made any deed which might be prejudicial to them etc.; and when the inquisition and the certification have been returned in Chancery, justice is to be done there.The deeds were shown before the council.

Places mentioned

Dean, Hampshire

Grateley, Hampshire

Westbury, Wiltshire.

People mentioned

Warin (Warren) (Maudut) (Mauduit), former husband of Elizabeth de Buri

Thomas Maudut (Mauduit), son of Elizabeth de Buri

Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester.

For a related document, see SC 8/294/14661

• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IV, Edw III, 1327-1337, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.28 (grant to John de Kyngeston of custody of two-thirds of Warminster and Westbury, belonging to the late Thomas Maudit, because of the minority of the heir)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. VII, 1-9 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1909), no.601 (inquisition post mortem of Warin Maudut)