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Edmund Basset. Basset Edmund King and lords of parliament. Edmund Basset requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/22/1072

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Reference
SC 8/22/1072
Date
[c. 1401]
Description
Petitioners
Edmund Basset.
Name(s)
Basset, Edmund
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
Edmund Basset requests that the record and process of a plea between Edmund and King Richard II, concerning certain lands and tenements in Winford, Saltford, Dundry, Barrow Gurney, Backwell, Hazel, Rockhill, and Long Ashton in Somerset, and the advowson of the church of Winford, which resulted in the lands and tenements being seized into the king's hand, in which there are errors, be brought before the king and lords in parliament, and the errors corrected; and that justice further be done to him.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Wynflith (Winford), Somerset
Salford (Saltford), Somerset
Dondray (Dundry), Somerset
Barwe (Barrow Gurney), Somerset
Bakwell (Backwell), Somerset
Hasell (Hazel), Somerset
Rochell (Rockhill), Somerset
Asshton (Long Ashton), Somerset.
People mentioned
Richard II, King of England.
Note
The petition enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster at the octave of Hilary, 2 Henry IV (1401) (Rot. Parl. III pp.461a-464a) is either a related petition to this one, in which case it appears to come from the same stage of the proceedings, or a very free transcription of this one. In either case this petition would seem to be from around 1401.
Related material

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/232/11598

For a related letter of attorney, see SC 8/232/11599

For a related petition, see SC 8/232/11600

An earlier related petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/21/1039

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 715
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.289b (no.24), 303b-304a (no.19) (transcripts of other petitions of the same petitioner on the same matter) & pp.461a-464a (transcription of related petition on parliament roll, with response and judicial process arising from it)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061236/

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