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Richard de Babington, son and heir of Hugh de Babington, late sheriff of Cambridgeshire...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/83/4134

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Reference
SC 8/83/4134
Date
[1300-1301]
Description
Petitioners
Richard de Babington, son and heir of Hugh de Babington, late sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
Name(s)
de Babington, Richard
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Babington requests allowance of a sum of £30 in his father's accounts for the view of Frankpledge of the honour of Richmond which the count of Brittany holds of the king, and which sum is paid at the Exchequer by the bailiffs of the count. His father has been surcharged with the sum per annum.
Nature of endorsement
The petition is answered according to the answer to that of Robert Hereward, now sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdonshire.
Places mentioned
Cambridgeshire
Huntingdonshire
Honour of Richmond.
People mentioned
Hugh de Babington, late sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire
Robert Hereward, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
Note
The petition dates to 1300-1301 as the response to the petition states that it is answered in the same way as the petition of Robert Hereward, the then sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire whose tenure of the office was from 6 October 1300 to 17 April 1301 (List of Sheriffs, p.12)
Related material

For a related document SC 8/265/13202

For a petition on the same matter by Hereward's successor see SC 8/1/32

For another petition by another sheriff on the same matter see SC 8/92/4591

For a petition by another sheriff of the counties on the same matter, see SC 8/159/7935

For an identical petition by the son and heir of another former sheriff see SC 8/83/4133

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 598
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148676/

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