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Roger Bozun (Bozon). Bozun (Bozon) Roger King. Bozun requests the king's letters...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/174/8652

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Reference
SC 8/174/8652
Date
[? c. 1290]
Description
Petitioners
Roger Bozun (Bozon).
Name(s)
Bozun (Bozon), Roger
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Bozun requests the king's letters to the justices of the Bench to assign Beckingham and a knight of Nottinghamshire to take the inquisition between Bardolf and Bozun drawing [jurors] from three wapentakes.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Nottinghamshire
Bingham wapentake, [Nottinghamshire]
Newark wapentake, [Nottinghamshire]
Thurgarton and Lythe wapentake, [Nottinghamshire].
People mentioned
Ellis de Bekingham (Beckingham)
Robert Bardolf.
Note
The petition is dated to? c. 1290 in accordance with the guard note dating, though the basis of this dating is somewhat suspect as it is based on an unrelated reference to the petitioner in the patent rolls (CPR 1281-92, p.413). Beckingham, the justice requested in the petition, was a justice of common pleas from 1285 to 1307 (Sainty, The Judges of England, p.59)
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294518/

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