Catalogue description Petitioners: Thomasina de Fornivall (Furnival), wife of William de Fornivall ...

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Details of SC 8/46/2291
Reference: SC 8/46/2291
Description:
Petitioners: Thomasina de Fornivall (Furnival), wife of William de Fornivall
Name(s): de Fornivall (Furnival), Thomasina
Addressees: King and council
Nature of request: Thomasina, wife of William de Fornivall, states that on her marriage she brought her husband rents and possessions to the value of 100 marks annually, with other money and goods and chattels to the value of 4000 marks, but that through his cruelty and harshness she has been unable to live with him for fear of her life, as is well known, although no blame attaches to her for this. She has often humbly requested her sustenance from him, as he was adjudged by law of Holy Church to give her £100 annually, but he has refused to do anything. Therefore she asks that a remedy might be ordained for her, so that she might be able to have sufficient security of peace, and a suitable maintenance.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
People mentioned: William de Fornivall (Furnival)
Note: Dated on the guard to? before 1383, with reference to CFR 1377-83 p.373. It also notes 'Thomasina de Fornivall apparently a widow and fairly active in 1386 seq.', quoting CPR 1385-9 p.175 (dated at Westminster, 12 March 1386) and CPR 1385-9 p.533 (dated at Westminster, 26 November 1388).CCR 1381-5 p.279 is dated at Westminster, 9 June 1383, and the petitioner is clearly a widow by then. This petition may well date from the reign of Edward III rather than Richard II.
Date: [c. 1383]
Related material:

For a related petition, see SC 8/247/12333

For a related petition, see SC 8/148/7390

For a related petition, see SC 8/110/5500

For a related petition, see SC 8/48/2362
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 3549
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1920), p.279 (order to Escheator to remove the king's hand from the lands of the late William de Furnival)

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