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Thomas Bavent, knight. Bavent Thomas King. 1) Bavent requests a grant of the constabulary...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/93/4635

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Reference
SC 8/93/4635
Date
[c. 1325-c. 1350]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Bavent, knight.
Name(s)
Bavent, Thomas
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
1) Bavent requests a grant of the constabulary of Norwich Castle as Rye granted it to Hubert de Bavent.2) Copy of the charter of Henry de Rye granting the constabulary of Norwich Castle to Hubert de Bavent.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.2) He should declare by his petition which of his ancestors last died seised, and in the time of which king, and how the thing came into the hand of the progenitors of the king, and in whose time.
Places mentioned
Norwich, [Norfolk].
People mentioned
Henry de Ry (Rye)
Hubert de Bavent
Henry de Claunvyle
Alexander Fitz Geoffrey (son of Geoffrey)
Almod de Bellesage
Ralph de Botevill
Hugh de Stratton
Robert de Tyvile
Richard Horse
Geoffrey Somery
William de Sancto Claro
Master Richard Goscelyn, chaplain
William de Hereford Noreys
Richard Fitz Torall (son of Torall)
William [de Merkesale], son of Peter de Merkesale (Fitz Peter de Merkesale)
Garno Fitz Ralph (son of Ralph)
Eudo Fitz Ebraud (son of Ebraud).
Note
No definite dating has been established, and the petition is assigned, on the basis of the hand and the use of French in the endorsement, to the second quarter of the fourteenth century.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 738
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149186/

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