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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Roger Docwra (Dockray), parson of Burton in Kendal and chaplain to the duke of Gloucester....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/229/11410
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This record is about the Roger Docwra (Dockray), parson of Burton in Kendal and chaplain to the duke of Gloucester.... dating from [1416] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/229/11410
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1416]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Roger Docwra (Dockray), parson of Burton in Kendal and chaplain to the duke of Gloucester.
- Name(s)
- Docwra (Dockray), Roger
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- parson of Burton in Kendal and chaplain to the duke of Gloucester
- Nature of request
- Docwra requests that the chancellor be directed to make writs for proclamations to be made throughout the county that the Bethum brothers appear in Chancery at a certain day to answer to the king and Docwra for the assault that they made on his parsonage with many armed men, and the goods that they carried away.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Burton in Kendal, Westmorland.
- People mentioned
- [Humphrey of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester
- Thomas de Bethun
- William de Bethum
- Robert de Bethum
- Robert Pen, chaplain of the petitioner
- [John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford
- Robert Crakanthorp (Crackenthorpe)
- John Brikryg.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1416 as other petitions found in the following files that came from Chancery Files 548 date to 1416.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Chancery Files 548
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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 Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. IV, 1408-1413, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.118 (ratification of the petitioner in the estate of his church)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334970/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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