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Constance de Bearn. de Bearn Constance King. Bearn requests that the king will grant...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/338/E1242

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Reference
SC 8/338/E1242
Date
[1305-1306]
Description
Petitioners
Constance de Bearn.
Name(s)
de Bearn, Constance
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Bearn requests that the king will grant a commission to the abbot of St John of the Castle, or the prevot of St Sever, and give to one of them the power to receive the attorney general that she wishes to make to plead and answer in her place in the king's court or any other court of England where she has business.
Nature of endorsement
She should sue before the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer and make a fine, and she should have her request for three years.
Places mentioned
Aire diocese, [Gascony, France]
St Sever, [Gascony, France].
People mentioned
Abbot of St John of the Castle
Prevot of St Sever.
Note
The petition is dated to 1305-1306 as this petition seems to be part of an original file of Gascon petitions - SC 8/338/E1217-SC 8/338/E1260 - for which SC 8/338/E1228 seems to have been the cover petition. The dating of this group of documents is arrived at by the possibility of more closely dating several of the petitions in this group, and these are noted when necessary. In addition, almost all of the petitions bear the old PRO references to Diplomatic Documents 1542 and 1548.
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/286/14263

The petition belongs to a probable original file consisting of SC 8/338/E1217- SC 8/338/E1260 of which SC 8/338/E1228 was probably the cover petition judging from its endorsement, see SC 8/338/E1228

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Diplomatic Documents 1548.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9683371/

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