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John de Baunebury (Banbury). de Baunebury (Banbury) John King and council. John de...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/31/1539
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/31/1539
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Baunebury (Banbury).
- Name(s)
- de Baunebury (Banbury), John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- John de Baunebury complains that Richard Catel, John [?], and others, dressed as monks, feigning a visitation of the parsonage of Hackney, attempted to steal the money for the farm of the parsonage with menaces, and when John de Baunebury fetched the constables of the peace, they afterwards broke into his house, tied up, beat and wounded him, his wife, and his whole household, and stole money and jewels. By maintenance of Robert de Baudak, Richard de Baudak, Roger de Waltham, John Fot, and John Cullyng, they gave the former king to understand that John de Baunebury and the people of Hackney had robbed them, so that the king granted an oyer et terminer. Robert de Baudak and Richard de Baudak procured justices who wore their robes and took their fees, and threatened anyone who might dare to oppose them, and demanded ransoms with menaces from the petitioner, the vicar of Hackney, John de Tuwe and the other people of the vill. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to sue at common law concerning the things contained in the petition, and if there is anything in the judgment which harms him, he is to have the record and process brought before the king, and justice is to be done there.
- Places mentioned
- Hackney, [Middlesex]
- Sabrythcheswrth (Sawbridgeworth), [Hertfordshire]
- Ashwell, [Hertfordshire].
- People mentioned
- Richard Catel, kinsman of Richard de Baudok
- Richard de Baudok (Baldock)
- John [?] of Sawbridgeworth
- Henry [illegible] of Ashwell
- Roger de Stevenhach (Stevenage)
- Lionel Wlle, Chamberlain of Richard de Baudok
- Robert de Baudak (Baldock)
- Roger de Waltham
- John Fot (Foot), esquire of Roger de Waltham
- John Cullyng
- John de Cantebr' (Cambridge), justice
- John Bever, justice
- Geoffrey atte Leigh, justice
- John de Tuwe.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 'c. 1326' with reference to CPR 1324-7 p.287, which is dated at Kenilworth, March 24 and March 26, 1326. This seems to be the oyer and terminer mentioned in the petition: the names of the justices agree, and there is no conflict with the fact that the petition suggests that this was granted after the attack on the petitioner on the Thursday in Easter week, as Easter in 1326 fell on March 23. The events in the petition all seem to have taken place in the last year, but it also speaks of the oyer and terminer being granted as a result of false insinuations to 'le roi qi adonqe fu': so it must have been presented to the first parliament of Edward III, in January 1327.
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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 1237
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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. V, 1324-1327, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.287 (commission of oyer et terminer on complaint by Richard de Baldock that the petitioner, Thomas de Wykham, vicar of Hackney, John Tuwe the elder, John Tuwe the younger, Ralph de Watford and others carried away his goods at Hackney; and likewise on similar complains by Roger de Stevenach, William de Therfeld, Richard de Newemarket and Henry de Bokeland)
- Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, R. W. Kaeuper, (Whiting & Co., London, 1979), pp. 734-5 (translation of a substantial part of the petition, and comment in footnote on the dating)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061735/
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