requesta

requesta, ~us [OF, ME requeste < CL requisitum p. ppl. of requirere] 1 formal request, petition, demand; b (litterae de ~a); c (ad ~am or ~um) at the request or petition (of, w. gen.). d (magister ~arum) royal officer to whom are presented petitions for the monarch (also w. ref. to officer in Court of Requests, cf. 1f infra); e (clericus ~arum, w. ref. to officer in Court of Requests). f (curia ~arum, Eng.) Court of Requests. 1385 ~us generalis de permittendo ambassatores transire per regna et loca in partibus transmarinis Foed. VII 455; nuncios ‥ ad ‥ Barengariam transmittebat, graciam et relaxacionem ab ipsa super ~u [sc. reddicionis dotis sue quam detinebat] cupiens impetrare Meaux I 394; 1423 nec miremini ‥ de nostra presenti vicerosa ~a, cum ‥ zelare natura et lex docent Reg. Heref. 28; 1437 ambassiator ‥ certam protestacionis cedulam sive ~am ‥ presentavit Bekynton II 28; 1471 ballivi, suo ~ui miti inclinati Scot. Grey Friars II 216.  b 1446 ut patet per literas dicti domini A. de supersessione et ~a factas dominis auditoribus scaccarii ad supersedendum ExchScot 249.  c 1279 ad ~am regis Francie Foed. II 135; 1415 ad quorum instanciam et specialem ~am Melrose 537; ad nostrum specialem rogatum et partium predictarum ~um ‥ sigilla sua apposuerunt Croyl. Cont. B 506 (cf. CalPat 376); 1438 ad humiles ‥ et exaudicione dignas nobilis viri J. de M. ‥ instancias et ~as Bekynton I 198; ad ~am et instanciam comitis Plusc. X 1; 1505 ad ~um nobilis viri Scot. Grey Friars II 225.  d 1389 magistrum P. F. consiliarium et magistrum ~arum hospitii ‥ adversarii nostri [sc. regis Francie] RScot 98a; 1515 consilii clerico Jacobo O. magistro ~arum nostrarum Midlothian 290; magistri ~arum Camd. Br. 144 (v. 1f infra).  e ~arum ‥ clericus Camd. Br. 144 (v. 1f infra).  f 1550 pardonamus ‥ tentiones curie ~ium de terris et bonis contra formam legum et statutorum ‥ Anglie Foed. XV 206 (= Pat 827 m. 36); ~arum curia, sive curia de Whitehall, audit caussas inter privatos prius principi oblatas. in hac sunt magistri ~arum et clericus Camd. Br. 144. 2 (eccl.) petition accompanied by offering from a parishioner on whose behalf it is made, ‘request’. b (denarii pro ~is) money paid or received for masses said for the souls of the dead (v. quot.). 1268 consistit ipsa vicaria ‥ in decima ‥ ovorum Pasche ‥ in obventionibus altaris, purificationibus, ~is casualibus, ciragiis, pane altaris, mortuariis ‥ Reg. Linc. 110; c1270 mortuaria et oblaciones racione decedendi, x s.; oblacio core [MonA: cere] et ~e, vij s. iiij d.; oblaciones cum pane benedicto, vij s. vij d. Cart. Glast. I 61 (= MonA I 34a); a1287 quod ‥ parochianos predicte ecclesie ‥ nullo modo admittant ad sacramenta ‥ nec eorum oblationes, decimas, ~as, vel alia jura ad predictam ‥ pertinentia recipiant Reg. Malm. II 77.  b ‘denarios †perquisitos [l. pro requisitis]’: aliqui libri habent sic, ‘denarios pro ~is’, et sunt hi denarii qui ‥ consueverunt dari curato pro habendis memoriis defunctorum Lyndw. 111e (cf. ib. 237g).