Olive Snard, widow of John Snard. Snard Olive King and council. Snard requests remedy...

Petitioners

Olive Snard, widow of John Snard.

Name(s)

Snard, Olive

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Snard requests remedy as a widow who was granted dower by the king in Chancery. She was in the earl of Lancaster's manor of Chelveston near Higham Ferrers on the Saturday next after the feast of St Luke the Evangelist, 4 Edw. III when Neville came with people unknown to the manor and by force and arms and entered by night and ravished and aggrieved the petitioner and still detains her so that she is not able to sue towards him.

Nature of endorsement

Let it be ordered to the sheriff of the place that he take with him knights and others of his bailiwick and power and go to the place where the lady is and make an examination, and if they find by examination that the lady did not assent nor still does, that they ...

Places mentioned

Chelveston, [Northamptonshire]

Higham Ferrers, [Northamptonshire].

People mentioned

John Snard, late husband of the petitioner

[Henry of Lancaster], earl of Lancaster

Piers de Nevil (Neville).

For a related petition, see SC 8/57/2807B

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.34b (no. 20) (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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.31-51, no.20 (summary of references)