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Joan de Burwey, the widow of John de Burwey. de Burwey Joan King and council. Joan,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/321

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Reference
SC 8/7/321
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Joan de Burwey, the widow of John de Burwey.
Name(s)
de Burwey, Joan
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Joan, the widow of John de Burwey complains that Warren de Bassingbourn and his companions named above, with twenty others, who said they were with the king, at Warren's procurement came to John de Burwey's house in Steeple Morden, and lay in wait for him night and day until they found him, and then beat and wounded him until he was dead. They still threaten her and her household with death, if she should sue against them - to such an extent that she does not dare to live anywhere in that country - and they do this through the power which Warren has from Bartholomew de Baddesmere, from whom he has twenty pounds a year and his robes. She states that Warren also brought Bartholomew de Badlesmere [...] with three hundred armed men, against the king's prohibition, out of Essex over the Thames to Kent as far as Malling [...] Bartholomew made his assemblies. She requests that she might be able to sue in the king's court in safety, and that justice might be done to her.
Nature of endorsement
She is to sue at common law if she wants to.
Places mentioned
Wynpol (Wimpole), [Cambridgeshire]
Steplemordon (Steeple Morden), [Cambridgeshire]
Essex
Lewe de Temise (River Thames)
Kent
Malligge (Malling), Kent.
People mentioned
John de Burwey
Warren de Bassingburne (Bassingbourn) of Wimpole
[...] de Bassinburne (Bassingbourn)
Roger de Bassingburne (Bassingbourn), son of Warren de Bassingbourn
Robert de Benningworth
Stephen [...]
John Burel (Burell) the elder
John Burel (Burell) the younger
Henry le Welchemon (Welshman)
John de Eyriche
John Dichebert
Bartholomew de Baddesmere (Badlesmere).
Note
The petition is dated to 1322 on the basis of the guard with reference to the previous petition (SC 8/7/321).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 473
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060443/

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