Catalogue description Petitioners: Margaret de Redwar (Redware) and Denise de Redwar (Redware), daughters of...

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Details of SC 8/261/13005
Reference: SC 8/261/13005
Description:
Petitioners: Margaret de Redwar (Redware) and Denise de Redwar (Redware), daughters of Robert de Redwar, through Thomas de Fennewik (Fenwick), their closest kinsman, who sues for them.
Name(s): de Redwar (Redware); de Redwar (Redware); de Fennewik (Fenwick), Margaret; Denise; Thomas
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Margaret and Denise, daughters of Robert de Redwar, who are under age and indeed not yet of the age of discretion, state through Thomas de Fennewik, their closest kinsman, who sues for them, that William de Heddon and Isabel, wife of Robert de Redwar, murdered Robert by conspiracy between them, and that William de Tyndale, the Coroner, who found this by inquisition, has taken Robert's goods into the King's hand as forfeit, and will not allow Margaret and Denise to have any part of them, as they should. Thomas requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement: The coroner is to be ordered to have the inquisition held before him brought.
Places mentioned: Northumberland.
People mentioned: Robert de Redwar (Redware); William de Heddon; Isabel [de Redwar (Redware)], widow of Robert de Redwar; William de Tyndale, coroner of Northumberland.
Note: The transcript of the writ issued as a result of this petition (SC 8/170/8484) is dated 18 March, 33 Edward I (1305), and the petition to which that transcript was attached (SC 8/170/8483) speaks of it being issued as the result of a petition at the previous parliament: this petition, therefore, must have been presented to the Lent parliament of 1305.
Date: [1305]
Related material:

For a transcript of a writ issued as the result of this petition, and the subsequent inquisition, formerly attached to SC 8/170/8483, see SC 8/170/8484

For a later petition by the same petitioners on this matter, see SC 8/170/8483
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), p.55 (no.42) (full edition of petition)

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