1382-05-07, Westminster

Appointment date: inferred Regnal year 5 Richard II · Richard II · Close Rolls · Membrane 4

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Dated in source: “May 7” · Place: Westminster (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 4 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

Robert Tresilyan and his fellows, justices appointed to hold before the king. Order by writ of nisi prius to command an which remains to be taken between the king and Elizabeth was wife of Edward le Despenser, whether she was dowered by of Thomas le Despenser of a third part of a hall and one of land in Shelyngthorp and of a wood pertaining to the manor or no, which hall, land and wood he held for life by feoffof her husband as she says, to be taken before one of the justices to the statutes. By C.

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