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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Baffer, burgess of La Rochelle. Baffer John King. [This petition is badly faded.]Baffer...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/274/13672
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This record is about the John Baffer, burgess of La Rochelle. Baffer John King. [This petition is badly faded.]Baffer... dating from [c. 1319] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/274/13672
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1319]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Baffer, burgess of La Rochelle.
- Name(s)
- Baffer, John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly faded.]Baffer requests that the office of prevote of the Isle of Oleron be restored to him as it was granted to him at pleasure and then given to Gaigernart at farm; causing him heavy damages. He asks that he might hold it for the sum Gaigernart held it for during 1317 and 1318.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- La Rochelle, [Saintonge, France]
- Pontoise, [Isle de France, France]
- Isle of Oleron, [Saintonge, France].
- People mentioned
- [Isabella of France], Queen of England
- John Labbe, uncle of the petitioner, and spicer and valet of the chamber of King Philip
- Philip, King of France
- Amaury de Creon, Seneschal of Gascony
- Pierre Gaigernart
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1319 as the petition makes mention of the years 1317 and 1318, and it is clear that the petition is not long after it.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the origin grant of the office to the petitioner, see m.3 in C 61/26
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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)
- Gascon Rolls 1307-1317, ed. Y. Renaud, (Public Record Office, 1962), p.261 (no.971) (original grant of the office to the petitioner in 1313)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517619/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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