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

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.

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

• 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)