Catalogue description Petitioners: John de Drax, serjeant at arms; Margaret de Drax, wife of John de Drax...

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Details of SC 8/336/15856
Reference: SC 8/336/15856
Description:
Petitioners: John de Drax, serjeant at arms; Margaret de Drax, wife of John de Drax and daughter and heir of Thomas and Isabel de Barley; William Bosvyle (Bosvyll), son of Mary Bosvyll.
Name(s): de Drax; de Drax; Bosvyle (Bosvyll), John; Margaret; William
Addressees: Commons in Parliament.
Occupation: serjeant at arms
Nature of request: [Left-hand side missing] The right heirs of Isabel, widow of Thomas de Barley, request that FitzWilliam and Waterton be ordered to appear before the council to be examined on the matter contained within. Isabel, by her charter, enfeoffed Sherwood and Crook in her moiety of the church of Darfield, the manors of Woodhall and High Melton and all her lands in Yorkshire, to the intent that they would re-enfeoff her or her right heirs in the same. After her death Waterton entered certain lands in Darfield and Little Houghton and has taken their profits to his own use, to the great damage of the right heirs, and contrary to Isabel's last will.
Nature of endorsement: [Top right-hand corner missing] It was agreed in this present Parliament in October in the ... year of Henry VI, at the special request of the commons at the same Parliament, that this petition be heard by the King's council who should have power by authority of Parliament to cause FitzWilliam and Waterton to appear before them, and to examine them on the matters contained in the petition, and to ordain remedy to the petitioners in this matter at their discretion, so that the last will of Isabel, widow of Thomas de Barley, can be duly executed and the inheritance restored to her rightful heirs as the petition desires.
Places mentioned: Darfield, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; Woodhall, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; High Melton, [West Riding of] Yorkshire; Little Houghton, [West Riding of] Yorkshire.
People mentioned: Isabel [de Barley], widow of Thomas de Barley; Thomas de Barley; Mary [Bosvyll], daughter and heir of Thomas and Isabel de Barley; William Shirwode (Sherwood); John Croke (Crook), chaplain; Robert Waterton, squire; Edmund FitzWilliam.
Note: The petition dates to 1423 since the endorsement mentions that it was presented at Parliament in October, and by 1425 the land had been divided between the heirs (CPR 1422-9, p. 279).
Date: [? 1423]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429 , (Public Record Office, 1901), p.279 (commission to make lawful partition between Drax family and Bosvyll family of Isabel de Barley's lands in Yorkshire)

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