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Ralph de Benton. de Benton Ralph King and council. Benton requests that false inquisitions...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/330/E970
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/330/E970
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1316]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Ralph de Benton.
- Name(s)
- de Benton, Ralph
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Benton requests that false inquisitions that passed against him not be prejudicial against him, but that he reside in peace until the next coming of the king into those parts, or that a certain keeper willing to hold the inquisition in form of law and by loyal people before whom he will show that the inquisition was taken by false people against the form of their commission that they had. Berkeley and Blount were commissioned to enquire whether Benton had issued the victuals in his custody to the garrison of Berwick by false measure, and changed good victuals for bad and took money to do so, but the commission was subverted by the original instigators who gathered together with the garrison and procured an enquiry by the most false men of the garrison and town. The enquiry was held contrary to the terms of the commission and Benton was threatened so said nothing in his defence.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- Maurice de Berkeleye (Berkeley), keeper of the town of Berwick
- Steven le Blund (Blount).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1316 as various commissions were made to enquire into the abuses made by the petitioners concerning the king's victuals in July 1315, and the petition clearly postdates these (CPR 1313-17, pp. 328, 403, 404-5). In addition, Bain also dated the petition to 1316 (Bain, vol. III::no. 522).
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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)
- Exchequer Queen's Remembrancer Ancient Miscellanea, Bundle 36, no.5.
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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)
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- Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. III, 1307-1357, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.427 (memorandum of inquisition produced to the barons, presumably being the inquisition that Benton refers to as being taken against him and his fellows) & no.522 (translation of petition)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.328, 403, 404-5 (commissions to various commissioners to examine complaints against the petitioner and his abuse of the king's victuals (the first reference is to the commission to Berkeley and Blount))
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.59-61 (no. 30) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682965/
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