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Description
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Petitioners:
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Juliana de
Beleknapp (Belknap), wife of Robert de Beleknapp (Belknap).
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Name(s):
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de Beleknapp
(Belknap), Juliana
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Addressees:
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King and
council.
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Nature of
request:
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Juliana,
wife of Robert de Beleknapp, states that her husband has lost all his
possessions and been banished, leaving her and five children in England,
and that he has nothing to live on except an annuity of £40 from his former
lands. Now these have mostly been sold, and she cannot raise this annuity.
She requests a inquiry into the sale of these lands, and that certain
lands, entailed on the heirs of Robert's body, and others which she holds jointly
with him, to the value of that sum, might be reserved and granted to her in
wardship for the term of Robert's life, in compensation for the annuity.
She also requests £10 worth of tenements of her inheritance, for her
sustenance and that of her children.
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Nature of
endorsement:
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The King
wills that the wives and other relatives of those who were justices and
banished and are now in Ireland are to have at farm the lands and tenements
which belonged to the said justices and have not been sold, up to the sum
which is ordained by parliament for the sustenance of the same justices,
notwithstanding any letter patent made to any other, to have the aforesaid
lands and tenements at farm. And those who will have the said lands and
tenements at farm in this way are to have an allowance in their farm for
the aforesaid sums. And if the said unsold lands and tenements are not
sufficient for such sums, the King wills that a fixed appointment and
assignment might be made by his council as to how and in what way, and where
and in what place, the said former justices, and each of them, may have
good and swift payment of the sums assigned to them in this way by the said
parliament for their sustenance.
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Places
mentioned:
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Ireland.
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People
mentioned:
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Robert de
Beleknapp (Belknap), justice.
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Date
derivation:
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The grant
for the sustenance of Robert de Beleknapp (CPR 1388-92 p.231) is dated 20
February 1390, and the grant for his wife's sustenance is dated 15 March
1390. Both would seem to be the result of this petition.
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