Catalogue description Petitioners: Alexander de la Werthe (Worth). Name(s): Werthe (Worth), Alexander ...

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Details of SC 8/259/12947
Reference: SC 8/259/12947
Description:
Petitioners: Alexander de la Werthe (Worth).
Name(s): Werthe (Worth), Alexander
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Alexander de la Werthe states that John de Excestre, formerly Treasurer of Exeter cathedral, purchased certain tenements in the vill of Downton near Christchurch in Hampshire for himself and his heirs forever, so that after his death it descended to his sister, Emma de la Werthe, Alexander's mother, who sued to the King's grandfather until she had a commission of inquiry to John de Foxlegh. But, because it was found that the tenements were at some time seized into the hand of Isabella de Fortz because they were held of the manor of Christchurch, and because Isabella died in the meantime, the King entered into the tenements. Emma died before the inquisition was returned, and Alexander has sued all the time of the King's father and has never had a response to his bill. He asks that justice might be done to him and that he might have another writ of inquiry so that he is not disinherited.
Nature of endorsement: The inquisition is to be examined in Chancery, and when the Chancellor has taken such counsel as he wishes, he will ordain that justice is to be done.
Places mentioned: Exeter, [Devon]; Donkerton (Downton), Hampshire; Christchurch, Hampshire.
People mentioned: John de Excestre (Exeter), formerly Treasurer of Exeter cathedral; Emma de la Werthe (Worth), sister of John de Excestre; [Edward I], King of England; John de Foxlegh (Foxley); Isabella de Fortz (Forz); [Edward II], King of England.
Note: From the content, the petition would seem to date from the early years of Edward III.
Date: [c. 1327]
Related material:

For an earlier petition from the same petitioner on this subject, see SC 8/150/7478
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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