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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Bartram, knight, formerly Sheriff of Northumberland, and Joan Bartram his wife...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/31/1543
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/31/1543
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1431
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Bartram, knight, formerly Sheriff of Northumberland, and Joan Bartram his wife
- Name(s)
- Bartram; Bartram, John; Joan
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- Sheriff of Northumberland
- Nature of request
- John Bartram and Joan his wife state that they were seised of the manor of Wigston in Leicestershire with its appurtenances, of Joan's right, until 20 December, in the ninth year of the king's reign, when Baldwin Bugge and other malefactors forcibly disseised them of it while John was performing his office in Northumberland; and Baldwin has entered into an agreement with all the jurors in the county that they will support him, and not find against him. They ask for a writ to Baldwin, summoning him before the king and his council to be examined on this matter, and that they might be restored to the manor, together with their costs and damages, by the advice of the council.
- Nature of endorsement
- On 29 (?) November in the tenth year at Westminster, it was granted that a writ is to be sent to the aforementioned Baldwin Bugge to appear before the king's council at Westminster at the quinzaine of Hilary next, to answer on the contents of the petition, and to those accusations which will then be made to him on the king's behalf on this matter, on pain of £100; and another writ is to be sent to the Sheriff of Leicestershire to deliver this writ to the aforesaid Bugge on pain of £40, in the presence of the lords of Gloucester, Canterbury, Ely, Rochester, Bath, Lincoln, Norfolk, Hunt[ingdon] and Scrope.
- Places mentioned
- Wigston [Magna], Leicestershire
- Westminster
- People mentioned
- Baldwin Bugge
- [Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester
- [Henry Chichele, Archbishop of] Canterbury
- [Philip Morgan, Bishop of] Ely
- [John Langdon, Bishop of] Rochester
- [John Stafford, Bishop of] Bath [and Wells]
- [William Gray, Bishop of] Lincoln
- [John de Mowbray, Duke of] Norfolk
- [John Holand Earl of] Huntingdon
- [John le Scrope], Lord Scrope [of Masham]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 10 Henry VI (1431-1432) and on the dorse to 29 (?) November of that year - so to November 1431.
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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 1120
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Hen VI, vol. II, 1429-1435, (Public Record Office, 1933), pp.296, 304-5, 341-2 (references to Wigston still being in the hands of Baldwin Bugge after the date of this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061739/
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