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Description
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Petitioners:
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John de
Beauchamp, knight.
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Name(s):
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de
Beauchamp, John
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Addressees:
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King and the
lords of this present parliament.
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Nature of
request:
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Beauchamp
requests remedy as he bought the reversion of the manor of Kidderminster
from Walter Romseye, the reversion being after the death of Alice du la
Mare, Romseye making fine before Belknap for the reversion, but then
marrying his son to Alice and enfeoffing the manor in deceit of the king's
court and to Beauchamp's damage.
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Nature of
endorsement:
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[None].
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Places
mentioned:
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Kidderminster,
[Worcestershire]; Westminster.
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People
mentioned:
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Joan [de
Beauchamp], wife of the petitioner; Walter Romeseye; Alice [du la Mare],
daughter of Malcolm du la Mare; Robert Bealknap (Belknap), Chief Justice of
the Common Bench; Robert Brunne, chaplain; John Ripon, chaplain; Thomas
Payn, chaplain; John [Romeseye], son of Walter Romeseye.
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Date
derivation:
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The petition
dates to c. 1384 as a licence was granted to Walter Romeseye to grant the
reversion of the manor of Kidderminster to Beauchamp, and the petition is
quite probably not too long after the grant of the licence (CPR 1381-5,
p.460).
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