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Roger Doket (Doget). Doket (Doget) Roger King of England and France. Roger Doket...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/224/11199

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Reference
SC 8/224/11199
Date
[1385]
Description
Petitioners
Roger Doket (Doget).
Name(s)
Doket (Doget), Roger
Addressees
King of England and France.
Nature of request
Roger Doket requests remedy in his case against Gilbert regarding a prisoner taken during the Bishop of Norwich's last campaign in Flanders and his ransom of 1000 francs. Judgment has unjustly been given against him by Gournay and Roches.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] The king wills that right and reason be done.Oxford.
Places mentioned
Flanders.
People mentioned
[Henry Despenser], Bishop of Norwich
Mathew Gournay (Gourney), knight
John de Roches, knight
Philip Gilbert
[Robert de Vere, Earl of] Oxford.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1385, with reference to the appointment of commissioners to investigate and judge Doket's appeal in this case made in March and May 1385.
Related material

For another petition from this petitioner on this matter see SC 8/224/11159

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.592 (appointment of commissioners to investigate this complaint) & p.598 (mandate to commissioners to hear and determine Doket's appeal in this case)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334759/

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