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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Walter Benet (Bennet) of Uxbridge. Benet (Bennet) Walter King. Benet requests payment...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/90/4487
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This record is about the Walter Benet (Bennet) of Uxbridge. Benet (Bennet) Walter King. Benet requests payment... dating from [? c. 1290-c. 1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/90/4487
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1290-c. 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter Benet (Bennet) of Uxbridge.
- Name(s)
- Benet (Bennet), Walter
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Benet requests payment of a debt for the prises taken from him by the king's purveyors, as he is greatly impoverished, or that his sustenance be provided for him for life in the house of Ogbourne.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered to the treasurer, chamberlains and barons that when they have viewed what he has for the debt, if they find that the debt is due, and the king was served of it, they should make payment; and if they find that the king was not served they should summon the purveyors and do justice.2) Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Uxbridge, [Middlesex]
- Ogbourne, [Wiltshire].
- People mentioned
- Steven de Stanes (Staines).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- There is no evidence to date this petition, so it has been tentatively assigned to the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries on the basis of its hand and general appearance.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.14 of PRO 31/7/97
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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 439
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149032/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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