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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas de Bysschopeston (Bishopstone). de Bysschopeston (Bishopstone) Thomas King...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/17/841
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This record is about the Thomas de Bysschopeston (Bishopstone). de Bysschopeston (Bishopstone) Thomas King... dating from [c. 1324] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/17/841
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1324]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas de Bysschopeston (Bishopstone).
- Name(s)
- de Bysschopeston (Bishopstone), Thomas
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Thomas de Bysschopeston states that an informer called Roger Lumbard maliciously gave Hugh le Despenser, the son, to understand that Thomas was an enemy of the king and an adherent of the Bishop of Hereford, smuggling his people and his letters out of the country, and receiving aliens and other enemies of the king's. Hugh gave a commission to Simon le Croyser to attach Thomas, with the result that Thomas and his friends had to pay £100 to clear his name with Hugh - and all at the false procurement of this informer, for which he requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to sue at common law.
- Places mentioned
- Bishopstone, [Sussex].
- People mentioned
- Roger Lumbard (Lombard)
- Hugh le Despencer (Despenser) the son
- [Adam Orleton], Bishop of Hereford
- Simon le Croyser.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1321-4 p.423 is dated at Westminster, 4 June 1324.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 1107
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.423 (the writ of aid to Croyser for the arrest of Bysschopeston)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.415a (no.208) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060984/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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