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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Humphrey de Bassingbourne (Bassingbourn), lord of Benefield. de Bassingbourne (Bassingbourn)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/202/10075
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This record is about the Humphrey de Bassingbourne (Bassingbourn), lord of Benefield. de Bassingbourne (Bassingbourn)... dating from [c. 1326] 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 8/202/10075
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1326]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Humphrey de Bassingbourne (Bassingbourn), lord of Benefield.
- Name(s)
- de Bassingbourne (Bassingbourn), Humphrey
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Humphrey de Bassingbourne states that his wood of Benefield, which is within the bounds of the Forest of Rockingham, was disafforested, and that during that disafforestation he improved part of this wood; but that this wood has been adjudged as waste within the forest by ministers of the forest, and a large redemption has been demanded of him. He asks that he might be pardoned this, according to the grant made by the King by his letters patent to the community of the land, pardoning all trespasses committed in woods which were disafforested by the perambulation, and which are now back within the forest.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to have a writ to the justices of the Forest that if he made waste before the re-seizure of disafforested land he is to be quit. If however he made that waste after the re-seizure, he is to be dealt with according to the assize of the forest.
- Places mentioned
- Benefield, [Northamptonshire]
- Rockingham Forest, [Northamptonshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1323-7 p.557 is dated 17 April 1326, and seems to be related to this petition, although probably not in response to it.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.557 (order to the lieutenant of the justice of the forest to appear before the King to answer concerning the taking of the wood of Benefield into the Forest of Rockingham without warrant)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333631/
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