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? No Petitioner named 1) [In Latin] Letters patent of Edward II appointing Basset...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/166/8296

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Reference
SC 8/166/8296
Date
[1328]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
1) [In Latin] Letters patent of Edward II appointing Basset and Roches as keepers of the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Sark and Alderney upon the death of Grandison.2) [In French] Writ of Edward II to Roches commanding him to go with all possible haste to the said islands.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Guernsey, [Channel Islands]
Jersey, [Channel Islands]
Sark, [Channel Islands]
Alderney, [Channel Islands]
Drayton Basset, [Staffordshire].
People mentioned
King of France
Edward, son of Edward II
Duke [sic]
Otto de Grandisson (Grandison)
Edward I, King of England
Ralph Basset, [Lord Basset] of Drayton
John de Roches
Edward II, King of England.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1328, with reference to Rot. Parl. Vol. II, p. 21.
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Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French and Latin
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.21a (no.23) (edition of letters patent)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 13-30, no. 23 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294141/

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