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Ralph le Botiller (Butler). Botiller (Butler) Ralph King and council. Botiller requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/156/7772

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Reference
SC 8/156/7772
Date
[1334]
Description
Petitioners
Ralph le Botiller (Butler).
Name(s)
Botiller (Butler), Ralph
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Botiller requests that a remedy be ordained, and amends made for the damages done by the men of the earl of Warenne at his command, coming to his manor and pulling it down and destroying or stealing his goods or chattels, and threatening him and his sons should they complain or try to come to parliament.
Nature of endorsement
The petition is to be ordered to the justice of Chester, and he is commanded to hear the complaint of the party upon the things contained in the petition, and do justice.
Places mentioned
Lyons (Holt), [Denbighshire, Wales]
Beachin, [Cheshire].
People mentioned
[John de Warenne], earl of Warenne
Henry Longecampe (Longchamp), knight
Ravlyn (Rawlin) [de Warenne], son of the earl of Warenne
Master Robert, carpenter of the earl of Warenne
John [le Botiller (Butler)], son of the petitioner
William [le Botiller (Butler)], son of the petitioner
Ralph [le Botiller (Butler)], son of the petitioner.
Note
The petition is dated to 1334 on the basis ascribed to this and other petitions from the Hale manuscript edition published in Rot. Parl., vol. II, p.88a-b (no.65).
Related material

For a petition by one of the petitioner's sons on the same matter see SC 8/156/7771

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.88a-b (no.65) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209964/

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