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Details of SC 8/124/6176
Reference: SC 8/124/6176
Description:
Petitioners: Henry de Lancaster.
Name(s): de Lancaster, Henry
Addressees: King and Council.
Nature of request: Henry de Lancaster makes three requests.1) He requests that the chancellor inspect inquisitions returned into Chancery under the king's father into lands and fees held in Cornwall and Devon by Patrick de Chaworth. These lands should have passed to him by the right of his wife Maud, but are in the king's hands. He asks for them to be restored.2) He seeks the restoration of land in Walmore, claiming that it had been granted to his father by Edward I as part of the manor of Rodley, but that the constable of St Briavels had taken it to the King's use, claiming it was part of the Forest of Dean.3) He seeks the removal of a fishing weir from the River Wye, which is causing damage and disruption to boats using the river.1)
Nature of endorsement: Prosecute in Chancery that the inquisitions be viewed and justice done according to the customs of the Chancery.2) The Keeper of the forest is ordered that, in the presence of the present constable of St Briavels and Henry de Lancaster, he make inquiry into this seizure, and whose hands it is in and why, etc, and certify the findings to the king.3) Assign two men of law to enquire by whom the fishing weir was erected, etc., and to certify their findings to the king.Assigned to Nicholas de Kyngeston and Henry de Penebrigg.
Places mentioned: Cornwall; Devon; Rodley, Gloucestershire; Walmore, [Gloucestershire]; Forest of Dean, [Gloucestershire]; St Briavels, [Gloucestershire]; River Wye; Bristol; Monmouth, [Monmouthshire, Wales]; Hereford, [Herefordshire].
People mentioned: Walter de Gloucester; [Edward I], King of England; Patrick de Chaworth; Maud [de Lancaster], wife of Henry de Lancaster; Edmund [of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster], father of the petitioner; Richard de Haydon, former constable of St Briavels; Nicholas de Kyngeston; Henry de Penebrigg.
Note: Enrolled on the parliament roll for the Westminster parliament of January 1315.
Date: [1315]
Related material:

For another petition relating to the lands in Rodley see SC 8/123/6149

For a related petition from this petitioner see SC 8/123/6143

For a related petition see SC 8/56/2769
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 5379
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.205 (resultant inquisition into the third of these requests)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.315a (summary of petitions and responses on parliament roll)

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