Catalogue description Petitioners: Margaret de Mortemer (Mortimer), widow of Edmund de Mortimer. ...

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Details of SC 8/61/3028
Reference: SC 8/61/3028
Description:
Petitioners: Margaret de Mortemer (Mortimer), widow of Edmund de Mortimer.
Name(s): de Mortemer (Mortimer), Margaret
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Mortimer requests writs to the keepers of castles and to the escheator who have seized many lands and tenements into the king hand that they make delivery of the issues that they have received from lands in Wales, Somerset and Worcestershire.1)
Nature of endorsement: Let it be ordered to the keepers of [castles] that they speedily certify the king [in] Chancery upon the cause of the taking of the lands etc., and if these lands are . . . dower of the lady, and let it be done etc.2) And concerning the earl of Arundel . . . be called into Chancery, and m. . . be certified and let justice be done.
Places mentioned: Warthreynon (Gwrtheyrnion) commote, [Radnorshire, Wales]; Melenith (Maelienydd) commote, [Radnorshire, Wales]; Kery (Ceri) commote, [Montgomeryshire, Wales]; Kedewyng (Cedewain) commote, [Montgomeryshire, Wales]; Bridgwater, [Somerset]; Norton, [Worcestershire]; Bromsgrove, [Worcestershire].
People mentioned: Edmund de Mortimer, late husband of the petitioner; Walter le Graas; [Edmund Fitz Alan], Earl of Arundel; John del Ortyey.
Note: The petition appears to date to 1322 as an inquisition was held into the castle of Bridgwater and the escheator was ordered to amove his impediment from the petitioner receiving rent in Bridgwater and Norton in October and December 1322 respectively (CIM 1307-49, no.617; CCR 1318-23, p.615).
Date: [1322]
Related material:

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/268/13366

For another petition by the same petitioner on a similar matter see SC 8/156/7775

For a petition by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/127/6346

For a petition by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/63/3110

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/62/3076
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 5585
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.89-90 (full summary of petition)

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.615 (order to the escheator to remove his impediment from the petitioner in the collection of her rent Norton and Bridgwater)

Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.617 (inquisition into the Mortimer tenure of Bridgwater)

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