Prior of Worksop. King [and council]. Prior of Worksop [This petition is fragmentary]...

Petitioners

Prior of Worksop.

Addressees

King [and council].

Occupation

Prior of Worksop

Nature of request

[This petition is fragmentary] [To our lord the] king [and to his council] the Prior [of Worksop] shows . . . seised . . . aforesaid . . . take the assise . . . contained . . . of dower of the . . . disseised . . . by the said . . . the said prior expelled . . . the record of the process of the said . . . our lord the present king and the pleas before him . . . his will would have repaired and the . . . keeper of the said manor of Gringley, the men of . . . does not allow . . . at the suit of the said Prior . . . our lord the king . . . in those parts necessary . . . the said Prior . . . and because the said manor . . . inquisition was returned in Chancery and the said Prior . . . the parliament of our lord the present king held at Nor[thampton] . . . commanded by our lord the king to Simon de Birford . . . to the said Prior . . . the aforesaid things according to the . . . from the place where it was levied and established had expelled . . . and the tenants of the said manor of Wheatley . . . Westminster the fourth year of his reign requested by his petition . . . his faithful and loyal Robert Perpount, Richard [de Whatton] . . . of the county of Northampton fully . . . in the presence of John Byk, then keeper [of Tickhill] . . . until he had the said Isabella informed . . . of the oxen and horses had carried . . . and thus he/she wished to have this improved . . . [there] was not another mill then in the . . . to the said keeeper that the said mill in the . . . to put back in the place where it was before . . . that he would make the said Prior have the . . . and his predecessors ought to have . . . in the hand of Queen Philippa, then . . . of the said mill and suit still . . . Gringley, which manor is . . . before the said present Prior . . . said suit . . . pertaining . . .

Nature of endorsement

. . . letters . . . petitions sent into parliaments concerning the things contained in . . . inquire into the truth of the same things contained in this petition . . . made to the ministers of . . . by force of . . . justice . . .

Places mentioned

Worksop, [Nottinghamshire]

Gringley on the Hill, [Nottinghamshire]

Northampton, [Northamptonshire]

Wheatley, [Nottinghamshire]

Westminster

Northamptonshire.

People mentioned

Simon de Birford (Bereford)

Robert Perpount

Richard [de Whatton]

John Byk

Isabella [of France, Queen of England]

Philippa [of Hainault], Queen of England.

For a related document, see SC 8/8/399A

For a related petition, see SC 8/8/399C

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.197 (order to the keeper of the manors of Wheatley and Gringley, to have the mill replaced where it was before it was moved, and to cause the prior to have the suit of the men of Gringley pertaining to the mill, and let them grind their corn there as previously)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.284 (record and process of related assize of novel disseisin, with related inquisitions)