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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Walter de Busteby (Bushby) of Leicester, bailiff of Leicester. de Busteby (Bushby)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/106/5276
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This record is about the Walter de Busteby (Bushby) of Leicester, bailiff of Leicester. de Busteby (Bushby)... dating from [1322] 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 8/106/5276
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter de Busteby (Bushby) of Leicester, bailiff of Leicester.
- Name(s)
- de Busteby (Bushby), Walter
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- bailiff of Leicester
- Nature of request
- The petitioner complains that he has been charged by Belers with accounting for issues from the bailiwick of Leicester from Michaelmas [1321] to Easter [1322], but that the lands of the earl of Lancaster were taken into the king's hands during Lent, and the full amount charged cannot therefore be levied. He requests that an enquiry is commanded by the people of Leicester and the pays as to whether he was bailiff, and whether he owed anything to the earl, and that a remedy be ordained.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let Roger Belers be ordered by writ aggrieve Busteby wrongly, and to certify the king in Chancery on what he has done.
- Places mentioned
- Leicester, [Leicestershire].
- People mentioned
- Thomas [of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster
- Roger Belers
- Robert de Wylhouse (Wilhouse).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable, from internal references, to some time shortly after Easter 1322.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.20 of PRO 31/7/102
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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 2714
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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/C9149846/
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