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? No Petitioner named Writ of Richard II to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/299/14925

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Writ of Richard II to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer... dating from 1396 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/299/14925
Date
1396
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of Richard II to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer asking them to inform him of the reasons why certain tenements in New Shoreham and Old Shoreham, which belonged to Thomas de Bokyngham, senior, were taken into the King's hand by John de Bisshopeston, escheator of Sussex in the time of the King's grandfather, and of their value per annum.
Nature of endorsement
Enrolled in Trinity term in the nineteenth year, in roll 4.
Places mentioned
New Shoreham, Sussex
Old Shoreham, Sussex
Westminster.
People mentioned
Richard [II], King of England
Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer
Thomas de Bokyngham (Buckingham), senior
John de Bisshopeston, escheator of Sussex
Edward [III], King of England
Ardern.
Note
Writ dated 6 June, 19 Richard II (1396).John de Bisshopeston was Escheator of Sussex between 27 November 1368 and?11 November 1371 (List of Escheators).
Related material

For the response to this writ see SC 8/299/14926

For the petition which gave rise to this writ see SC 8/299/14927

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518128/

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