Catalogue description Petitioners: Philip le Despenser, son and heir of Philip le Despenser. Name(s): ...

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Details of SC 8/244/12159
Reference: SC 8/244/12159
Description:
Petitioners: Philip le Despenser, son and heir of Philip le Despenser.
Name(s): Despenser, Philip
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Despenser requests letters of the privy seal to the chancellor to make a writ to the justices to render judgment to Despenser without delay on the verdict of an inquisition held into his claims to the manor of Parlington. Hugh le Despenser granted the manor to the petitioner's father, but the manor is now in the queen's hand and Despenser has sued for right to be done to him for the manor, but the justices will not act without the king's command.
Nature of endorsement: It pleases the king that the chancellor make a writ for the petitioner to the justice in the case that if the inquisition passed as it was alleged that they go to render judgment on it without delay in right of the manor.
Places mentioned: Parlington, [West Riding of] Yorkshire.
People mentioned: Philippa [of Hainault], Queen of England; Philip le Despenser, father of the petitioner, and son of Hugh le Despenser, the father; Hugh le Despenser, the father.
Note: The petition dates to 1347 as the privy seal warrant was issued on 30 May and the justices were commanded to proceed to judgment on 8 June 1347 (C 81/319/18372; CCR 1346-9, pp.40, 223-4).
Date: [1347]
Related material:

For a related document, see SC 8/293/14611

For the privy seal warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see no. 18372 in C 81/319
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1346-1349, (Public Record Office, 1905), pp.40, 223-4 (order to admit the petitioner to verification, and order to render judgment)

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