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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Nicholas Bourdon. Bourdon Nicholas King and council. Bourdon requests that the King...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/263/13109
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/263/13109
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Nicholas Bourdon.
- Name(s)
- Bourdon, Nicholas
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Bourdon requests that the King do his will regarding his grant to the King of his wood of Rhotteridge forever, which wood is near but outside the bounds of the forest of Melksham, in exchange for the hundred of Grumbald's Ash with its lawdays forever, by which grant Ufford was ordered to enquire into the true value of the said wood, finding that it contained 26 acres of wood, 82 acres of underwood, was worth 5s an acre, contained 45 oaks each worth 8d, and is the primary home for the wild beasts of the forest who graze in its underwood, and the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, as ordered, certified to the King what the hundred returned yearly.
- Nature of endorsement
- The inquisition should be taken and certification made and returned in Chancery and then the King will do his will.
- Places mentioned
- Raderigge (Rhotteridge), [Wiltshire]
- Melksham, [Wiltshire]
- Grumbald's Ash hundred, Gloucestershire
- People mentioned
- Robert de Ufford, justice of the Forest.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? 1334, since this is the date of the parliament to which it belongs (Rot. Parl. Vol. II, p. 84).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.84b-85a (no.50) (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517053/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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