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Robert de Bayouse de Bayouse Robert King and council Robert de Bayouse states that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/32/1569

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Reference
SC 8/32/1569
Date
[1320-1321]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Bayouse
Name(s)
de Bayouse, Robert
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Robert de Bayouse states that when James Beuflour sued an oyer et terminer against him before Henry Spigurnel and his companions, he named one John de Suavisethe, his page (garzoun) in the writ, in order to have him accuse Robert. He requests a remedy against such oyers and terminers, which were previously forbidden.
Nature of endorsement
What has been done has been done by process of law: therefore nothing.
People mentioned
James Beuflour (Beauflour)
Henry Spigurnel, justice
John de Suavisethe (Swavesey), page (garzoun) of James Beuflour
Note
CPR 1317-21 pp.535-6 is dated at Westminster, 11 July 1320. The earlier commission that it replaces (CPR 1317-21 p. 485) is dated at Reading, 18 May 1320. The release in CCR 1318-23 p.336 is dated at London, the Wednesday before the Purification, 14 Edward II (1321). The petition must lie between these dates.
Related material

An earlier related petition is SC 8/4/178

For a related petition see SC 8/159/7935

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 326
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.336 (enrolment of release by James Beuflour of all actions against the petitioner and the other accused)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), pp.535-6 (commission of oyer and terminer, on complaint by James Beuflour of assault by the petitioner and others) & p.485 (earlier commission, not mentioning John de Suavisethe by name)
  • Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, R. W. Kaeuper, (Whiting & Co., London, 1979), pp. 754, 756 (reference to petition)
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