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Piers de Bedingfeld, knight de Bedingfeld Piers King and council Piers de Bedingfeld,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/32/1591

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Reference
SC 8/32/1591
Date
[? 1332]
Description
Petitioners
Piers de Bedingfeld, knight
Name(s)
de Bedingfeld, Piers
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Piers de Bedingfeld, knight, who is imprisoned in Norwich castle and has nothing to live on, asks for a commission to William Giffard, Ralph de Bokkyng and Robert de Gessyngg for his deliverance.
Nature of endorsement
John de Stonore, John de Cauntebr' and Ralph de Bokkyng, or two of them, are to be appointed to deliver the gaol of Norwich castle of Piers de Bedingfeld and others etc.
Places mentioned
Norwich, [Norfolk]
People mentioned
William Giffard
Ralph de Bokkyng
Robert de Gessyngg
John de Stonore
John de Cauntebr' (Cambridge)
Ralph de Bokkyng (Bocking)
Note
Dated on the doprse with reference to CPR 1330-4 pp.352 and 354 (1332), but these are not the same justices. The dating is therefore very tentative.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1084
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.352 (commission to John de Cantebrigge, John de Shardelowe and John Claver to deliver Norwich castle of the prisoners indicted before John de Stonore and his companions, late justices of oyer and terminer in Norfolk, for the death of William March) & p.354 (appointment of the aforesaid persons to do this)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061788/

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