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? No Petitioner named Copy of a coroner's inquest into the death of Thomas Rempston,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/25/1219C

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of a coroner's inquest into the death of Thomas Rempston,... dating from [1427] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/25/1219C
Date
[1427]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of a coroner's inquest into the death of Thomas Rempston, where the jury report that he died in London when the boat in which he was being rowed up the River Thames from Castle Baynard capsized under London Bridge on the last day of October.Addition in a different hand: Rempston on 27 September before his death raised Thomas, Lord Roos from the font, and 21 years and more have elapsed since then.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
All Hallows the Less parish, London
Dowgate ward, London
Castle Baynard ward, London
Tower of London
People mentioned
Geoffrey Brook, Sheriff of the city of London
Nicholas Wotton, Sheriff of the city of London
Thomas Chaucer, chief butler and chief coroner in the city of London
Thomas Rempston (Rempstone), knight
Thomas [de Roos], Lord Roos.
Note
The inquisition is dated to 1 November 1406. The copy has additional comments which are probably contemporary with the petition in 1427. In addition the petition is endorsed: 'Petitions answered in the 6th year'. The inquisition is dated with the petition with which it was formerly enclosed.
Related material

For the warrant formerly attached with this inquisition to the petition see SC 8/25/1219B

For the petition to which this inquisition was attached see SC 8/25/1219A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7115
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429 , (Public Record Office, 1901), pp.450-1 (grant that Roos may have a writ for his age to be proved)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061392/

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