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Richard (Bowette) Buwet. (Bowette) Buwet Richard King and council. Buwet requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/319/E401

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This record is about the Richard (Bowette) Buwet. (Bowette) Buwet Richard King and council. Buwet requests... dating from [1321] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/319/E401
Date
[1321]
Description
Petitioners
Richard (Bowette) Buwet.
Name(s)
(Bowette) Buwet, Richard
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Buwet requests that he is granted a charter of peace for the death of Musgrave of which he is indicted, as he is prepared to go with the king in his war to live and die with him.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.
People mentioned
Nicholas Musgrave.
Note
The petition dates to 1321 as the petitioner and a kinsman were pardoned the death on 16 August of that year (CPR 1321-4, p.23).
Related material

For another petition by an apparent kinsman of the petition making the same request, see SC 8/319/E401

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.600 (order to the escheater to remove his hand from the petitioner's land, the lands being taken into the king's hand for the death of Musgrave)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.534 (inquisition finding that the petitioner was not convicted of Musgrave's death)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.23 (pardon to the petitioner and a kinsman for the death)
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