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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex. de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex John...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/93/4625
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/93/4625
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex.
- Name(s)
- de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Bohun requests an oyer and terminer into the waste and destruction done in his castle and manor of Kimbolton by Burstlere and Burstler when he was in the king's custody. He requests that he be granted their punishment.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because in the current parliament by common assent the justice of oyer and terminer were suspended, the king wishing that the justices be assigned to enquire upon the things contained in the petition and they should certify the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer are to be certified upon this. And the barons are to be commanded that when they have viewed the inquest and called those that ought to be called, they should do full justice according to the law and usage of the place.
- Places mentioned
- Kimbolton, [Huntingdonshire]
- Huntingdonshire
- Bedfordshire.
- People mentioned
- Robert le Burstlere
- William Burstler
- Humphrey de Waleden, justice
- John de Cantebregg (Cambridge), justice
- John de Shardelowe, justice
- Simon de Ermine, justice.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1328 as the petition is dated to the parliament held at Northampton in that year by Richard Kaeuper based on its challenge to the oyer and terminer commission (Kaeuper, 'Law and Order', p.746). The king had earlier granted to the earl the arrears of the farms and rents from the time of his minority to redress the damage done to his estate in that time on 10 January 1327 (CPR 1324-7, p.345).
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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 719
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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)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. V, 1324-1327, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.345 (grant to the earl of the arrears of the farms and rents for the repair of his castles, manors and lands)
- Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, R. W. Kaeuper, (Whiting & Co., London, 1979), p.746 (discussion of petition and partial edition of response)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149176/
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