Catalogue description Petitioners: Constance de Biern (Bearn); the attorney of Constance de Bearn. ...

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Details of SC 8/286/14263
Reference: SC 8/286/14263
Description:
Petitioners: Constance de Biern (Bearn); the attorney of Constance de Bearn.
Name(s): de Biern (Bearn), Constance
Addressees: King and council.
Occupation: the attorney of Constance de Bearn
Nature of request: Petition in three parts:1) Constance de Biern requests permission to appoint general attorneys to pursue her business in the courts of England, and for the Constable of Bordeaux to receive these attorneys before him.2) Her attorney asks that the Treasurer might order the sheriffs of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire to cease the demands that they are making of Constance, on the Treasurer's instructions, for scutage for Wales, for a certain term, so that the attorney can examine the rolls of the Exchequer for the truth about this scutage, and consult his lady about what she knows of the matter if necessary.3) He also asks the Treasurer to order the same sheriffs to cease their distraints on his lady's goods and chattels because she did not appear with a force in Scotland in the previous summer, until he has been able to explain this business to his lady, and can answer more surely in the matter, when he knows his lady's will.
Nature of endorsement: The first petition is answered in this way: she is to have a writ of Chancery to master Richard de Haveryng, Seneschal of Bordeaux, to receive her attorneys, to last for one year.To the other two petitions: he is to have respite until a month after Easter.
Places mentioned: [Gascony, France]; Yorkshire; Nottinghamshire; Wales; Scotland.
People mentioned: Richard de Haveryng (Havering), Seneschal of Bordeaux.
Note: Richard de Havering was Constable of Bordeaux between March 1305 and January 1307, which, if this is what is meant by the dorse, dates the petition. From the content, a date of around this time sounds likely.
Date: [? 1305-? 1307]
Related material:

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/292/14578

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/289/14431

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/338/E1242
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French and Latin
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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