Tenants of Tunstead. King and council. The tenants of Tunstead, in the honour of...

Petitioners

Tenants of Tunstead.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The tenants of Tunstead, in the honour of the castle of High Peak, the king's ancient demesne, state that the castle of High Peak is now in the queen's hand, and that one Ralph Despaigne, her approver of the castle, is distraining them for the rents of a Thomas Fitz Robert and a John Fitz William, who have never existed, and whose names have been entered in the rent-roll by a mistake of the clerk: as they are prepared to aver. They ask that they might not be charged for more than the quantity of land that they hold, and that they might hold their lands by the customary rents and services, without any wrongful charge.

Nature of endorsement

They are to appear before the queen's council in order to be discharged.

Places mentioned

Tunstead, [Derbyshire]

High Peak, [Derbyshire].

People mentioned

[Philippa of Hainault], Queen of England.

For a related petition to the queen's council, see no.120 of SC 1/42

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.81b (no.35) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
• 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. II, pp. 73-89, no. 35 (summary of references)