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James Botiller (Butler) of Ireland. Botiller (Butler) James King. Botiller shows...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/35/1715

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Reference
SC 8/35/1715
Date
[c. 1323]
Description
Petitioners
James Botiller (Butler) of Ireland.
Name(s)
Botiller (Butler), James
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Botiller shows that his father and his ancestors have been seised of the vill of Little Mitton with the lake of Mitton by feoffment of the king's ancestors. The abbot of Whalley and the heir of Richard le Botiller with the sufferance of the ministers have put boats on the lake and fished to Botiller's disinheritance. He requests that the king order the sheriff of Lancashire to remover the boats until the abbot and heir show by what right they claim the fishery.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the keepers of the same vill that they keep the lake in the same state without fishing or other harm as it came into the hand of the king by the death of the ancestors so that no damage will come to the king nor to the prejudice of the heir during the custody.
Places mentioned
Little Mitton, [Lancashire]
Warrington, [Lancashire]
Swallei (Whalley), [Lancashire].
People mentioned
William le Botiller (Butler) of Warrington, Abbot of Whalley
Richard le Botiller (Butler).
Note
Dated tentatively on the guard to some time after 1323 on the basis that this is when the petitioner's father died and the petitioner came into his estates.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/171/8522

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 415
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.12 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061914/

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