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Robert de Bilkmore (Bilkemore), forester of the West Bailey of Savernake Forest;...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/267/13319

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This record is about the Robert de Bilkmore (Bilkemore), forester of the West Bailey of Savernake Forest;... dating from [1334] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/267/13319
Date
[1334]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Bilkmore (Bilkemore), forester of the West Bailey of Savernake Forest; Anastasia Bilkmore (Bilkemore), wife of Robert de Bilkemore.
Name(s)
de Bilkmore (Bilkemore); Bilkmore (Bilkemore), Robert; Anastasia
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The Bilkmores request that Ufford be commanded to try and judge their claims in the forest of Savernake as they made them in the eyre at Salisbury at the same time as did Lesturmy, and they were sent to the parliament and have been adjourned to parliament to parliament to their great cost and trouble.
Nature of endorsement
They should sue before the king because the king has reserved the thing mentioned by the petition to himself.
Places mentioned
Savernake Forest, [Wiltshire]
Salisbury, [Wiltshire].
People mentioned
Henry Lesturmy, keeper of Savernake forest
Robert de Ufford, justice of the Forest.
Note
The petition dates to 1334 as an edition of the petition was published from a Hale manuscript that attributed that date to it (Rot. Parl., vol.II, p.78a (no.25)).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioners on a different matter see SC 8/158/7861

For another petition by the same petitioners, see SC 8/11/541

For another petition on the same petitioners, see SC 8/33/1648

For a petition referring to the petitioners, see SC 8/63/3118

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.78a (no.25) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.73-89, no.25 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517266/

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