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Adam de Bowes. de Bowes Adam King and council. Bowes requests remedy as he was sued...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/321/E498

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Reference
SC 8/321/E498
Date
[c. 1306]
Description
Petitioners
Adam de Bowes.
Name(s)
de Bowes, Adam
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Bowes requests remedy as he was sued by writ by Wharton, Threlkeld and Goldington for land in Newbiggin, and his attorney died at Pontefract on his way to London and he lost his land in default though he was ignorant of his attorney's death because he was on the king's service in Scotland as Swinburn attests.
Nature of endorsement
He should sue that he has testimony that he was in the king's service.
Places mentioned
Newbiggin, Cumberland
Pontefract, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
York
London
Scotland.
People mentioned
Gilbert de Querton (Wharton)
Henry de Threelqeld (Threlkeld)
William de Goldington
William Pynkene, attorney of the petitioner
Robert de Swyneburne (Swinburn).
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1306 as the petition refers to the morrow of Martinmas in the 34th year of the reign of the king [12 November 1306] in relation to the appointment of the petitioner's attorney.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), p.93 (no.60) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529550/

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