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Robert Gychard (Guichart). Gychard (Guichart) Robert King and council. Gychard, indicted...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/264/13150

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This record is about the Robert Gychard (Guichart). Gychard (Guichart) Robert King and council. Gychard, indicted... dating from [c. 1309] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/264/13150
Date
[c. 1309]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Gychard (Guichart).
Name(s)
Gychard (Guichart), Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Gychard, indicted for the death of Thomas and Olive Donevand and put in exigent by the justices at the last assizes in Jersey and who came and gave himself up to the King's prison, requests that he may have a writ directed to the bailiff of Jersey and to Barantin 'de bien et de mal'.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Jersey, [Channel Islands].
People mentioned
Thomas Donevand
Olive [Donevand], wife of Thomas Donevand
Drew de Barantin (Barantine).
Note
Dated on the guard to c. 1309, since it was in this year that Barentyn was appointed justice in eyre and justice of oyer and terminer in the Channel Islands (CPR 1307-13, p. 112).
Related material

For a related petition from the same petitioner see SC 8/272/13560

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), pp.3-4 (calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.112 (1309 appointment of Barentyn as justice in eyre and justice of oyer and terminer in the Channel Islands)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517096/

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