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Roger de Boys, son of Alexander de Boys of Bures. de Boys Roger King. Boys requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/245/12248

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Reference
SC 8/245/12248
Date
[1339]
Description
Petitioners
Roger de Boys, son of Alexander de Boys of Bures.
Name(s)
de Boys, Roger
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Boys requests that he be granted a charter of pardon for the robbery of Atteheyde for which he is indicted in Essex. He has served in all the king's wars in Scotland, France and Brabant.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Bures, [Essex, Suffolk]
Little Bures (Mount Bures), [Essex]
Scotland
France
Brabant, [Belgium]
Essex.
People mentioned
John Atteheyde of Little Bures.
Related material

For the privy seal warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see no. 12278 in C 81/258

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, Edw III, vol. IV, 1338-1340, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.232 (grant of pardon)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439854/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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