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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Bowet, esquire. Bowet Thomas King. Bowet requests the grant of the keeping...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/231/11505
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This record is about the Thomas Bowet, esquire. Bowet Thomas King. Bowet requests the grant of the keeping... dating from [1405] 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 8/231/11505
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1405]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Bowet, esquire.
- Name(s)
- Bowet, Thomas
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Bowet requests the grant of the keeping of the forest of Exmoor in Devon with a messuage of Newton Plecy, and with the park of the same vill of Newton Plecy in Somerset which are in the king's hand during the minority of Edmund de Mortimer. He requests that he can hold it during the minority, and he requests this notwithstanding a grant of a 10 mark annuity granted to him to be taken from the honour of Pontefract.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Exmoor forest, Devon
- Newton Plecy, Somerset
- Pontefract honour.
- People mentioned
- Edmund [de Mortimer], son and heir of Roger de Mortimer, earl of March
- Roger [de Mortimer], earl of March.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1405 as the custody was granted to the petitioner on 11 February 1405 (CPR 1401-5, p.488).
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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 498.
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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. II, 1401-1405, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.488 (grant of request)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335064/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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