Catalogue description Petitioners: Robert de Workesely. Name(s): de Workesely, Robert Addressees: ...

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Details of SC 8/146/7276
Reference: SC 8/146/7276
Description:
Petitioners: Robert de Workesely.
Name(s): de Workesely, Robert
Addressees: King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request: Robert de Workesely states that he has wardship of Elizabeth, daughter of Geoffrey de Workesely and Isabel de Lathom, with the intention of marrying her to his son, but that Mary de Felton, the divorced first wife of Geoffrey de Workesely, who had entered the house of the Minoresses in London, has left the convent, against the will of the Abbess, and is suing false lawsuits to disinherit Elizabeth and to annul her own profession. He requests a remedy, so that Elizabeth is not disinherited.
Nature of endorsement: When this petition had been read in parliament in the presence of the parties present there, and when their arguments on one side and the other had been heard, John Curson named in the petition granted in parliament that he intended to sue with effect the writ which he and his wife have pending in Common Bench on this matter, without any deceit, fraud or delay, and that he would not make a non-suit. And the petitioner granted also that he would not make any appeal or other delay concerning the certification of the Bishop of London, but, in the case that the said John should claim or show any secret sentence or other process of the law of Holy Church not known to the said Robert, then Robert will be allowed to appeal the said sentence or processes, and to have such delays as the law demands.
Places mentioned: London; Kirby Bedon, Norfolk; Westminster.
People mentioned: Geoffrey de Workesely; Mary de Felton; Minoresses of London; Thomas de Lathom; Isabel [de Lathom], daughter of Thomas de Lathom; Elizabeth [de Workesely], daughter of Geoffrey de Workesely and Isabel de Lathom; Thomas [Illegible, due to damage to ms]; John Sturmyn; John de Curson, knight, husband of Mary de Felton.
Note: Dated on the guard to '? c. 1391' with reference to SC 8/103/5109, but this is not possible if the dating of c. 1390 for that petition is accurate, and even the date of c. 1381 originally suggested for SC 8/103/5109 would scarcely allow time for the developments that have taken place between the petitions. It is safer therefore to assign the petition more generally to the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
Date: [c. 1390-c. 1410)
Related material:

For another petition concerning Geoffrey de Workesley see SC 8/103/5109

For transcript, see no.76 of PRO 31/7/111
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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