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Oliver de Burdeaux (Bordeaux). de Burdeaux (Bordeaux) Oliver King. Burdeaux requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/279/13937

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This record is about the Oliver de Burdeaux (Bordeaux). de Burdeaux (Bordeaux) Oliver King. Burdeaux requests... dating from [1330] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/279/13937
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
Oliver de Burdeaux (Bordeaux).
Name(s)
de Burdeaux (Bordeaux), Oliver
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Burdeaux requests that whereas the King's father gave him land in Windsor forest which he had bought from the bishop of Bath, the reversion of which pertains to the King, that the King give permission for the petitioner's tenants to have common pasture according to their tenancy because they cannot work their lands without beasts. He also requests pardon of £10 imposed on him by Mautravers for de-pasturing his beasts in the new park of Windsor, when he had the King's father's permission to do so.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Windsor, [Berkshire]
Bath, [Somerset].
People mentioned
[John Droxford], Bishop of Bath [and Wells]
John Mautravers.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1330, with reference to CPR 1327-30, p. 525, a pardon to the petitioner of £10 imposed on him by Mautravers for depasturing his cattle in the new park of Windsor, in accordance with this petition. This is also the date of the Chancery warrant with which this was probably enclosed (C 81/171 no.3559).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see no.20068 in C 81/336

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/269/13415

For another petition by the same petitioner, see no.2612 in C 81/162

For the Chancery warrant with which this was probably enclosed see no.3559 of C 81/171

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Royal letters 4173.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.525 (pardon to petitioner of £10 for de-pasturing his cattle in the new park of Windsor, in accordance with this petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517885/

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