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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Aylesbury, knight, and John Knyvet, kinsmen and heirs of Ralph Basset of Weldon,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/88/4399
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/88/4399
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1398]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Aylesbury, knight, and John Knyvet, kinsmen and heirs of Ralph Basset of Weldon, knight.
- Name(s)
- Aylesbury; Knyvet, John; John
- Addressees
- King and lords of parliament.
- Nature of request
- John Aylesbury and John Knyvet state that they are the true heirs of heirs of Ralph Basset of Weldon, knight, as sons of his father's sisters, as his supposed son and heir, Richard, is not his son at all, but that of Tybot Lowekyn. They sued to the King on this, requesting a writ of mandamus to inquire into the matter, and the King ordered the Chancellor in Easter term last to examine the matter, and to do justice, and when he did not, he again ordered him to do so in Michaelmas term, but again without success. They ask the King again to order the Chancellor a third time to do justice in the present term, as they have sued for two years and more on this.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Weldon, Northamptonshire
- Weston by Welland, Northamptonshire
- Sutton Bassett, Northamptonshire
- Dingley, Northamptonshire
- Welham, Leicestershire
- Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire
- Church Langton, Leicestershire
- Great Bowden, Leicestershire.
- People mentioned
- Ralph Basset, knight
- Ralph [Basset], father of Ralph Basset
- Joan [Basset], sister of Ralph Basset the elder and mother of John Aylesbury
- Eleanor [Basset], sister of Ralph Basset the elder and mother of John Knyvet
- Richard [Basset], supposedly the son and heir of Ralph Basset the younger
- Tybot Lowekyn.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1396-9 p.309 is dated 28 April 1398 and p.395 is dated 28 August 1398. These two entries seem to concern a group of manors which coincides only in part with that given in the petition: in any case, they seem to be perhaps slightly later than this petition. A further supersedeas, concerning a manor in Staffordshire, is found in CCR 1396-9 p.91.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.1 of PRO 31/7/112
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 132
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.309 (writ of supersedeas in a case between the petitioners and Richard Basset until the latter's majority) & p.395 (similar writ of supersedeas)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148941/
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