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Alexander de Bastenthwayt (Bassenthwaite). de Bastenthwayt (Bassenthwaite) Alexander...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/32/1553

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Reference
SC 8/32/1553
Date
[c. 1317]
Description
Petitioners
Alexander de Bastenthwayt (Bassenthwaite).
Name(s)
de Bastenthwayt (Bassenthwaite), Alexander
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Alexander de Bastenthwayt requests an assignment for payment for the money owed to him by the king for the account rendered by him for the wardship of the lands which belonged to John de Wyggeton in Cumberland, and for his expenses for the equipping of Cockermouth castle and elsewhere.
Nature of endorsement
Before the Treasurer.
Places mentioned
Cumberland
Cockermouth, [Cumberland].
People mentioned
John de Wyggeton (Wigton).
Note
Dated on the guard to c. 1317, with reference to CPR 1317-21 p.31, which is dated at York, 20 September 1317.CCR 1313-8 pp.496-7, dated at York, 9 September 1317, is an order to make the petitioner a larger assignment for expenses on Cockermouth castle. It also mentions his wardship of John de Wyggeton's lands as being in the past. This petition may concern a different debt altogether, or it may be requesting the payment of the last of the earlier sum.
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner amongst others, see SC 8/323/E573

For another petition by the same petitioner and another, see SC 8/34/1653

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1213
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), pp.496-7 (order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to allow Alexander de Bastenthwayt £99 18s. 8d. for expense on the defence of Cockermouth castle in his account of the issues of the lands of John de Wyggeton)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.31 (mandate for Alexander de Bastenthwayt to pay his farm for John de Wyggeton's lands to Andrew de Harcla)
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