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Nicholas de la Beche (Beech). Beche (Beech) Nicholas King and council. Beche requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/162/8084

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SC 8/162/8084
Date
[1326]
Description
Petitioners
Nicholas de la Beche (Beech).
Name(s)
Beche (Beech), Nicholas
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Beche requests livery of his lands and tenements with the issues of the meantime, and restitution of his goods and chattels as he was held in prison for 4 years by the false procurement of Despenser and Baldock who accused him of compassing their death, and while he was in prison his lands and tenements were seized into the king's hand.
Nature of endorsement
Let this petition be sent into Chancery and there let it be viewed, and if it was taken into the hand of the king without . . .
People mentioned
Hugh le Despenser
Robert de Baldok (Baldock).
Note
The petition dates to 1326 as it was ordered that the lands of the petitioner in Suffolk be restored if they had been taken into the king's hand for no cause (CCR 1323-7, p.622).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.622 (order for the restoration of the petitioner's lands in Suffolk if they find that they were taken into the king's hand without cause)
  • Proceedings against the Crown (1216-1377), Ludwik Ehrlich, (, 1921), pp.252-3 (edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293928/

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