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? No Petitioner named Letter of Beuseval to the king in response to a letter sent...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/346/E1394

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Reference
SC 8/346/E1394
Date
[c. 1324]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter of Beuseval to the king in response to a letter sent to him by the king which he received in London on the 3rd March commanding him to certify the king as to those of which the bailiwick of Ogbourne is charged by the king and his father, and for how much, by what manner, and for what cause. Benseval responds with the names of Canterbury and Loange, and states that the house is greatly burdened because his predecessor bought the pension of Loange for a great sum of money. He is newly come to England and any further evidence remains with the abbot.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Bec Hellouin, [Normandy, France]
Ogbourne St George, [Wiltshire].
People mentioned
Richard de Beuseval (Beausevall), attorney of the abbot of Bec-Hellouin of the bailiwick of Ogbourne
Edward II, King of England
Abbot of Bec-Hellouin
Henry de Caunterbir' (Canterbury)
John Loange.
Note
The letter dates to c. 1324 as it seems to be part of a file of petitions and other documents that dates to this time. In addition, the letter refers to the author as only recently having come into England, and Beausevall's first appearance seems to be in or around 1323 (Smith and London, The Heads of Religious Houses, II, pp. 184-5). The guard note does suggest that the letter is of this date, but also considers that it could be later and of the reign of Edward III, based on the dating of two petitions from the same author. This dating, for the above reasons, is therefore not likely.Although a note that precedes SC 8/346/E1392 states that petitions SC 8/346/E1392-E1399 are probably the remains of a file dating to c. 1324, the dating of SC 8/346/E1396 to 1308-c. 1320 may indicate that the attribution of these files to a putative file of c. 1324 is incorrect. It is unclear whether E1396 is a stray amongst other petitions that do belong to a file of c. 1324, or whether this group of files should be individually dated and do not in fact belong to a file of c. 1324. However, for most of these petitions there is little to indicate a problem with the dating of c. 1324.
Related material

For another petition that was probably part of an original file with this letter, see SC 8/346/E1392

For another petition by the author of this letter, see SC 8/11/538

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/163/8137

For a petition from the author of this letter, see SC 8/11/537

For a letter that was probably part of an original file with this letter, see SC 8/346/E1398

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736818/

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