Catalogue description Petitioners: Marmaduke Basset. Name(s): Basset, Marmaduke Addressees: King...

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Details of SC 8/311/15515
Reference: SC 8/311/15515
Description:
Petitioners: Marmaduke Basset.
Name(s): Basset, Marmaduke
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Marmaduke Basset requests remedy because Wessington gave the manor of Offerton to his grandfather and the heirs of his body, but after his death William Basset entered as son and heir and alienated the estate, depriving him of his inheritance. The petitioner has often sued to the bishop of Durham for a writ of formedon.
Nature of endorsement: The bishop should be ordered by writ of Chancery containing the request contained in this petition to do justice to Marmaduke.
Places mentioned: Offerton, County Durham.
People mentioned: Walter de Wessyngton (Wessington); Marmaduke Basset, grandfather of the petitioner; Isabel [Basset], daughter of Walter de Wessington and wife of Marmaduke Basset; William Basset, son and heir of Marmaduke Basset; Bishop of Durham.
Note: Dated to c. 1328 on the guard and to c. 1330-40 by Fraser, Northern Petitions, pp. 235-6, no.173.
Date: [c. 1328-c. 1340]
Related material:

For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/206/10278

For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/74/3693

For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/71/3509

For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/44/2165

For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/39/1935
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.235-6 (no.173) (edition of petition with references)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.14a (no.5) (copy of petition)

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.13-30, no.5 (summary of references)

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