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Robert Braybroke, Bishop of London. Braybroke Robert King. Bishop of London Robert,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/306/15299
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/306/15299
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1391]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert Braybroke, Bishop of London.
- Name(s)
- Braybroke, Robert
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- Bishop of London
- Nature of request
- Robert, bishop of London, recounts that Berners held the manor of Islington of the bishopric of London as of the castle of Stortford by the services of a knight, 7s 4d yearly and suit of court, and until his wife Amice died they were seised of the same by force of a fine levied at York on the octave of the Trinity in the 31st year of Edward I [1303] before the justices of the Common Bench between them and Roger Berners and Nevill. The right of the manor descended through the family until it came to Richard, now a minor, and the manor was seised into the King's hand by James' forfeiture and a judgment returned against him at the Parliament held at Westminster in the eleventh year of the King's reign [1388], the keeping of which William [sic] and manor pertains to the petitioner. The bishop requests delivery of the manor with its issues and profits.
- Nature of endorsement
- This petition should be sent to Chancery where the chancellor, having summoned the justices and King's serjeants, should do justice to the petitioner according to the law.
- Places mentioned
- London
- Islington, Middlesex
- Stortford (Bishop's Stortford), Hertfordshire
- York
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Edmund de Berners
- Edward I, King of England
- Henry III, King of England
- Ralph de Hengham, justice of the Common Bench
- William de Bereford, justice of the Common Bench
- Ellis de Bokyngham (Buckingham), justice of the Common Bench
- Peter Malorie (Malory), justice of the Common Bench
- William Howard, justice of the Common Bench
- Lambert de Trykenham, justice of the Common Bench
- Amice [de Berners], wife of Edmund Berners
- Roger de Berners
- John de Nevyll (Nevill)
- Ralph [de Berners], son and heir of Edmund de Berners
- John [de Berners], son and heir of Ralph de Berners
- James [de Berners], son and heir of John de Berners
- Richard [de Berners], son and heir of James de Berners.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 12 June 1391, with reference to CPR 1388-92, p. 443, a commission to enquire and certify touching this petition.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Chancery File 419.
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.443 (commission to enquire and certify touching this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518354/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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