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Roger de Bavent de Bavent Roger King and council. Dover, [Kent] Brandeston, [Suffolk]...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/32/1562

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This record is about the Roger de Bavent de Bavent Roger King and council. Dover, [Kent] Brandeston, [Suffolk]... dating from [1302] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/32/1562
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Roger de Bavent
Name(s)
de Bavent, Roger
Addressees
King and council.
Places mentioned
Dover, [Kent]
Brandeston, [Suffolk]
Hachesham (Hatcham), [Surrey].
Nature of request
Roger de Bavent states that he owes 10s. every thirty weeks for the keeping of Dover castle, for the manors of Brandeston and Hatcham, which were in the king's hands for nine years and more, until All Saints last, and that the Warden of Dover is distraining him for the arrears for this whole time. He requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
He is to go to Chancery and the rolls are to be examined, to discover how long he was in the king's wardship, and when he did his homage; and justice will be done to him, as has been done in similar cases.
Note
CCR 1296-1302 p.545 is dated at Westminster, 10 August 1302, and mentions that the king received Roger's homage, on his coming of age, on 27 October 29 Edward I (1301), which makes it compatible with the reference to the date in the petition.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner but on a different matter see SC 8/6/300

For a related petition see SC 8/165/8232

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1223
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.545 (order to the Constable of Dover castle to acquit Roger de Bavent of the demand of this sum for the time when he was a minor and his lands in the king's hands)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.157 (no. 16) (full edition of a later copy of the petition)
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