Catalogue description Petitioners: Thomas de Curteney (Courtenay); Muriel de Curteney (Courtenay) wife of...

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Details of SC 8/16/753
Reference: SC 8/16/753
Description:
Petitioners: Thomas de Curteney (Courtenay); Muriel de Curteney (Courtenay) wife of Thomas de Courtenay: William Botriaux (Botreaux); Isabel Botriaux (Botreaux), wife of William Botreaux.
Name(s): de Curteney (Courtenay); de Curteney (Courtenay); Botriaux (Botreaux); Botriaux (Botreaux), Thomas; Muriel; William; Isabel
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: The petitioners, on behalf of Muriel [de Curteney] and Isabel [Botriaux], daughters and heirs of John de Moeles, state that John owed the king various debts, to cover which the sheriffs of Somerset, Hampshire and Hertfordshire, by writ of the Exchequer, seized various goods and chattels belonging to John, but that at the suit of John's executors, the king ordered his Chancellor, by a letter under the targe, to send a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to hand the goods over to the executors, to fulfil the will of the deceased, and to levy the debts from John's terre-tenants, whose lands the petitioners hold, to their great harm. They request that this letter be repealed as contrary to the Great Charter, and a writ sent to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to this effect, and that the goods and chattels be delivered to them, or to the executors, under an agreement to satisfy the king for the debts.
Nature of endorsement: Because it is not just that the lands of debtors would be charged while the debtors have goods and chattels from which the debts can be levied, a writ of the Great Seal is to be sent to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer that, if they can find by inquest or in some other manner that the debtor has goods and chattels from which the debt can sufficiently be levied, then they are to levy the debt from the goods and chattels, and not the terre-tenants, notwithstanding the letters under the privy seal, provided that, if the goods and chattels do not suffice, the lands are to be charged in equal portions.
Places mentioned: Somerset; Hampshire; Hertfordshire.
People mentioned: John de Moeles.
Note: CPR 1334-1338, p.501 is dated at Westminster, 27 August 1337, and is the earliest reference to the death of John de Moeles; CPR 1334-1338, p.505 is dated at Westminster, 30 August 1337; CCR 1337-1339, p.180 is dated at Woodstock, 14 September, 1337; CPR 1334-1338, p.535 is dated at the Tower of London, 9 October 1337; CCR 1337-1339, p.312 is dated at Westminster, 3 March 1338. Thus 1338 is the earliest date for this petition, but as Thomas de Ferariis, who had custody of Isabel's lands during her minority, is not mentioned, it is much more probably after she comes of age in 1347 (CCR 1346-1349 p.298 is dated at Reading, 6 July 1347). But as CCR 1360-1364 p.160 (an order to the escheator to deliver his lands to William, son and heir of William de Botriaux, dated at Westminster, 15 February 1361) makes clear, Isabel is dead by that date.
Date: [1338-1361]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 1547
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1337-1339, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.312 (order to the escheator to deliver to Thomas and Muriel their share of the inheritance)

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1346-1349, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.298 (order to the escheator to deliver to William and Isabel their share of the inheritance, as Isabel is of age)

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.501 (pardon to Thomas de Courteneye for marrying Muriel without licence after death of John de Moeles, before the inquisition is held) & p.505 (grant to Thomas de Ferariis and Theobald de Mounteny of forfeiture due by Isabel de Moeles for marrying without licence (while a minor, as is clear from CCR 1337-9, p.180)) & p.535 (grant to Thomas de Ferariis of custody of Isabel's purparty while she is a minor)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.397b (no.110) (full edition of original petition)

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