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Edmund Basset. Basset Edmund King. Basset requests that the record of the suit between...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/232/11598

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Reference
SC 8/232/11598
Date
[c. 1392]
Description
Petitioners
Edmund Basset.
Name(s)
Basset, Edmund
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Basset requests that the record of the suit between the king and him be brought before the king and the peers in the present parliament and the errors in it be corrected and justice done to him. He has been ousted from his tenements in Winford and elsewhere in Somerset, and from the advowson of the church of Winford.
Nature of endorsement
The king has commanded to the chancellor to make due remedy by authority of parliament according to his discretion.
Places mentioned
Winford, Somerset
Saltford, Somerset
Dundry, Somerset
Barrow, Somerset
Backwell, Somerset
Hasell (Hazel), Somerset
Long Ashton, Somerset.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1392 on the basis of related petitions enrolled on the parliament rolls for 15 and 16 Richard II (Rot. Parl., vol. III, pp.289, 304).
Related material

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/21/1039

For a letter of attorney probably formerly attached to this petition, see SC 8/232/11599

For a related petition, see SC 8/232/11600

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. V, 1391-1396, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.231 (possibly related commission to the escheator of Somerset)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.289b (no.24), 303b-304a (no.19) (transcripts of other petitions of the same petitioner on the same matter) & pp.461a-464a (transcription of related petition on parliament roll, with response and judicial process arising from it)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335157/

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