Richard de la Chaumbre (Chamber), clerk. Chaumbre (Chamber) Richard King and council....

Petitioners

Richard de la Chaumbre (Chamber), clerk.

Name(s)

Chaumbre (Chamber), Richard

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

clerk

Nature of request

Richard de la Chaumbre makes two complaints:1) He states that Richard, Earl of Arundel, gave his father a piece of land in the lordship of Oswestry, outside the boundaries of any county, called the land of 'Morgan', and that his father and he were seised of it during the lifetime of the earl, until he was wrongly expelled by Earl Edmund; so that the land is now in the king's hand. He requests a remedy.2) He states that within the last two years the same Edmund forced him against his will to grant the reversion of £40 worth of land, also in Oswestry, outside the boundaries of any county and outwith the common law, after the deaths of Richard and of Cecily his mother. He requests a remedy.

Nature of endorsement

With regard to the first petition: the keeper of the land of Oswestry is to be ordered by writ to inquire into the contents and other necessary articles, and when the inquisition has been returned, the king is to be further informed etc. And the memoranda that belonged to the earl are to be examined, to see what can be found on behalf of the king to exclude the complainant from his demand.

Places mentioned

Oswestry, [Shropshire]

Morgan [unidentified].

People mentioned

Richard [Fitz Alan], Earl of Arundel

Richard de la Chaumbre (Chamber), father of Richard de la Chaumbre

Edmund [Fitz Alan], Earl of Arundel

Cecily [de la Chaumbre (Chamber)], mother of Richard de la Chaumbre.

For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/2/56

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.473 (calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.544-545 (complaints by Richard de la Chaumbre against Edmund, Earl of Arundel)