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Alan de Buxhull, Constable of the Tower of London. de Buxhull Alan King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/94/4671

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This record is about the Alan de Buxhull, Constable of the Tower of London. de Buxhull Alan King and council.... dating from [1378] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/94/4671
Date
[1378]
Description
Petitioners
Alan de Buxhull, Constable of the Tower of London.
Name(s)
de Buxhull, Alan
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Constable of the Tower of London
Nature of request
Buxhull requests that he can be discharged from the order to receive and keep prisoners arrested by the Marshal, and that they be kept where it has been customary to send them.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Tower of London
Marshalsea, [Surrey].
Note
The petition dates to 1378 as the petition is clearly in response to two writs de intendendo ordering the constable to keep prisoners delivered to him by the constable and marshal (CCR 1377-81, pp.20, 61).
Related material

For transcript, see no.9 of PRO 31/7/110

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 803
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), pp.20, 61 (two writs de intendendo ordering the constable to keep prisoners delivered to him by the constable and marshal)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149222/

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