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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Bos de Caupenne (Caupene). de Caupenne (Caupene) Bos King and council. Bos de Caupenne...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/291/14542
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This record is about the Bos de Caupenne (Caupene). de Caupenne (Caupene) Bos King and council. Bos de Caupenne... dating from [1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/291/14542
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Bos de Caupenne (Caupene).
- Name(s)
- de Caupenne (Caupene), Bos
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Bos de Caupenne states that he has been in the king's service during the war in Gascony and during the truce, and that the king owes him a certain sum of money for his wages. He had letters for this sum, but lost them when the king's enemies burnt his houses down one night. He has petitioned on this at York, and was told to inform the council of how many letters he has lost and of what sums of money were contained in them. He has letters of testimony from Barrau de Sescars and Peter Arnold de Wyk, which the king will find enrolled in his rolls. He asks the king to order his clerks to search their rolls.
- Nature of endorsement
- John de Sandale and Thomas de Cantebrigge are to be ordered to search their books, and to give testimony about what they find by their letters patent.
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France].
- People mentioned
- Barrau de Sescars (Sescas)
- Peter Arnold (Pey Arnaut) de Wyk (Vic)
- John de Sandale
- Thomas de Cant[ebrigge] (Cambridge).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Malcolm Vale discusses this petition on p.110 of The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War, 1250-1340 (Oxford 1990), where he dates it to 1305 - a date which is also suggested by the rest of the petitions in this file.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735704/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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