Catalogue description Petitioners: Margery de Dyve, abbess of Godstow. Name(s): de Dyve, Margery ...

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Details of SC 8/16/774
Reference: SC 8/16/774
Description:
Petitioners: Margery de Dyve, abbess of Godstow.
Name(s): de Dyve, Margery
Addressees: King and council.
Occupation: abbess of Godstow
Nature of request: The abbess of Godstow states that the king's ancestors granted by their charter to her and her house a tithe of venison in the forest of Witchwood, of which her predecessor, Mabel Wafre, was seised until Hugh le Despenser, the father, when he was keeper of that forest, prevented her from having it. She requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement: She is to show her charter in Chancery, and there a writ is to be sent to the Justice of the Forest or his lieutenant etc., that he is to institute an inquisition into whether the abbess' predecessors were seised of the tithe, and which of them was first ousted from it, and for what reason, and into all other necessary matters. And when the inquisition has been returned in Chancery, it is to be shown to the king.
Places mentioned: Godstow, [Oxfordshire]; Whichewode (Witchwood) Forest, [Oxfordshire].
People mentioned: Hugh le Despenser, the father; Mabel Wafre, Abbess of Godstow.
Note: This must date from shortly after the fall of Despenser, and presumably dates from the start of Edward III's reign.
Date: [c. 1327]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 3569
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.402b (no. 134) (full edition of original petition)

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