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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Buckingham (Bokyngham), Bishop of Lincoln. Buckingham (Bokyngham) John King....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1033
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This record is about the John Buckingham (Bokyngham), Bishop of Lincoln. Buckingham (Bokyngham) John King.... dating from [1384] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/21/1033
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1384]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Buckingham (Bokyngham), Bishop of Lincoln.
- Name(s)
- Buckingham (Bokyngham), John
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- Bishop of Lincoln
- Nature of request
- John, Bishop of Lincoln, requests that the king order his Chancellor and others of his council who are learned in the law to examine an inquisition held concerning a dispute between him and the tenants of the king's late father in Warborough, over certain lands in Overy, which he claims to be part of his town of Dorchester; and that, when they have done so, they do justice to him.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Dorchester, [Oxfordshire]
- Warborough, [Oxfordshire]
- Overee (Overy), [Oxfordshire].
- People mentioned
- [Edward of Woodstock (the Black Prince), Prince of Wales]
- John Gynewell (Gynwell), Bishop of Lincoln
- [Joan of Kent, Princess of Wales]
- Robert Tresilian.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1381-5 p.356 is dated at Westminster, 20 November 1383. The petition must postdate this, but there seems no particular reason to assume that it was presented in parliament. It seems also to have been presented before Joan of Kent's death in 1385.
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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 5082
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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, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.356 (commission to Robert Tresilian and others to hold an inquisition into the rights of the king's mother's tenants of Warborough in Overy)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.276a (no. 10) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061194/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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