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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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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter of Beuseval to the king in response to a letter sent... dating from [c. 1324] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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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.
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

Held by
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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