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Poor liege people of King's Barton. King and council. The people of the King's Barton...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/97/4826

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This record is about the Poor liege people of King's Barton. King and council. The people of the King's Barton... dating from [c. 1330-c. 1340] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/97/4826
Date
[c. 1330-c. 1340]
Description
Petitioners
Poor liege people of King's Barton.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The people of the King's Barton request relief against Sir Thomas Bradeston, who has the keeping of Gloucester castle and who has oppressed them; they report the case of Bradeston's valet, Peter de Seynt Combe, who notoriously murdered William de Melkesham and his own wife but was acquitted because of his connection with Bradeston and the latter's wife. Many other complaints against Bradeston and his followers cannot be brought for fear of his power in the county: if Bradeston were not so close to the king, a thousand petitions would be brought against him. At court he is a little saint, but in his country he is a raging lion.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] Another such bill was delivered to the clerk who has lost it.[None on dorse]
Places mentioned
King's Barton (Gloucestershire)
Gloucester Castle [Gloucestershire]
Berkeley Castle [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
Thomas de Bradeston (Bradestone)
[Isabel] de Bradeston (Bradestone)
Peter de Seynt Combe (St Comb), servant [valet] of Thomas de Bradeston
William de Melkesham
Hugh Arlos, steward of Thomas de Bradeston.
Note
Dated c. 1330-c.1340 by Saul, Knights and Esquires, pp. 266-7 (no. 3).
Related material

For transcript, see p.109 of PRO 31/7/130

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1244
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century, N. Saul, (Clarendon Press, 1981), pp.266-267 (no. 3) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149393/

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