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? No Petitioner named Letter to the queen in response to a group of petitions that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/33/1628

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Reference
SC 8/33/1628
Date
[c. 1327]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter to the queen in response to a group of petitions that the queen sent to the author concerning the free chapel of St Buryan requesting his advice. After taking council he advises that Beaupre be attached to answer for his trespass in entering the free chapel by force and arms in pursuit of his claim to the prebend of the chapel against the king's prohibition, and that the sheriff does not have any reason to seize the prebend or take its profits and he should be ordered to remove his hand.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Everwyk (York)
St Buryan, [Cornwall]
People mentioned
[Isabella of France], Queen of England
Richard de Beaupre
Robert de Bilkemer, Sheriff of Devon
Note
Although the letter is rather problematic because it does not tell us who the author is, or which queen it addresses, the queen is almost certainly Queen Isabella, for it is unlikely that Queen Philippa could have been acting in this way in the period 1327-30 when this letter dates. As there are a series of commissions of oyer and terminer between 1327 and 1329, the letter probably precedes these and must then date to 1327 (CPR 1327-30, pp.215 and 425-6). For further discussion of this see the comments for the dating of SC 8/33/1629.
Related material

For a petition by the dean and chapter, see SC 8/318/E351

For a petition by the bishop of Exeter on the same matter, see SC 8/8/361

For a petition by the dean and canons of St Buryan on the same matter, see SC 8/91/4528

For a petition by the dean of St Buryan on the same matter, see SC 8/33/1629

For a petition of the dean and chapter of St Buryan, see SC 8/257/12814

For another petition by the dean and canons of St Buryan on the same matter, see SC 8/92/4565

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1306
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), pp.215, 425-6 (three commissions of oyer and terminer on complaint by the dean against Beaupre)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061825/

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