Catalogue description Petitioners: Margery Colpeper (Colpepper), widow of Thomas Colpepper. Name(s): ...

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Details of SC 8/15/712
Reference: SC 8/15/712
Description:
Petitioners: Margery Colpeper (Colpepper), widow of Thomas Colpepper.
Name(s): Colpeper (Colpepper), Margery
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Margery Colpeper states that Despenser took the manor of Bayhall into the king's hand because of Thomas Colpeper's forfeiture, the manor was found to be her right by an inquisition with the result that the king retained the manor by force and the abetment of Despenser paying Margery 12 marks for her life. The ministers have let the houses fall down and be roofless to her great damage, and have not paid the rent according to the covenants made between the king and her. She requests that she have the manor and she will deliver the charter for the rent to the king's council.
Nature of endorsement: It is answered elsewhere.
Places mentioned: La Bayehall (Bayhall), Kent.
People mentioned: Thomas Colpeper (Colpepper), late husband of the petitioner; Hugh le Despenser, the son.
Note: A petition that is likely to date to early in the reign of Edward III as the petition is again less than favourable to Hugh le Despenser the younger. It seems unlikely that it dates to 1324 as the guard suggests, as this date seems somewhat misleading and is led by the multitude of references that survive in CIM 1307-49, and in CCR 1323-7.
Date: [? 1327]
Related material:

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/99/4911
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 1419
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.389a (no.62) (full edition of original petition)

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