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Petitioners:
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Peter de
Courtenay, knight.
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Name(s):
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de
Courtenay, Peter
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Addressees:
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King and the
lords in parliament
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Nature of
request:
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Courtenay
requests remedy and that the process brought by Widecombe has falsely
pursued against him be annulled so that he is not disinherited. Courtenay
made a fine with the Clyvedons whereby they acknowledged the manor of
Westrop to be his and undertook to warrant it. Widecombe has alleged that
Agnes Clyvedon was a professed nun at the time that the fine was alleged to
be made.1)
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Nature of
endorsement:
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Widecombe is
to be before the king and councilk at Westminster in the octave of Hillary
next to hear his judgement as it is entered in the record in the roll of
parliament.2) And afterwards the chancellor is to give a day to Widecombe
to be before the king and council at the quinzene of Easter next.3)
Afterwards the chancellor is to give a day in the octave of Trinity.4)
Afterwards he is to give a day at the octave of Michaelmas.
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Places
mentioned:
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Westrop,
Wiltshire; Coleshill, [Berkshire].
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People
mentioned:
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Robert
Bealknapp (Belknap); Richard Clyvedon; Agnes [Clyvedon], wife of Richard
Clyvedon; William Widecombe; Thomas Fouler (Fowler); Thomas Crikelade
(Cricklade); Bishop of Salisbury.
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Date
derivation:
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The petition
is likely to date to around 1387 when the petitioner was pardoned for
acquiring Westrop without licence, and was granted a further licence to
enfeoff his feoffee with the manor (CPR 1354-8, p.295).
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