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Geoffrey Beneyt (Bennet), usher of the Receipt. Beneyt (Bennet) Geoffrey King. usher...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/346/E1396

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Reference
SC 8/346/E1396
Date
[1308-c. 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Geoffrey Beneyt (Bennet), usher of the Receipt.
Name(s)
Beneyt (Bennet), Geoffrey
Addressees
King.
Occupation
usher of the Receipt
Nature of request
[Petition in three parts:]1) Beneyt requests the grant of the tenements in Dunton in the hands of the king by the minority of Gerounde for the extent;2) or the two parts of the manor of Caldecote that are in the king's hand by the forfeiture of Robert de Bruce;3) or Uttlesford hundred, or Hinckford hundred for the extent, to be rendered at the Exchequer, and to be held for life.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Dodington (Dunton), Buckinghamshire
Caldecote, Huntingdonshire
Odelesford hundred (Uttlesford Hundred), Essex
Hinckford hundred, Essex.
People mentioned
John Gerounde.
Note
The dating of this petition presents some problems. The petition is part of a group of petitions that a note preceding SC 8/346/E1392 states is probably the remains of a file of c. 1324, and which includes petitions SC 8/346/E1392-E1399. For most of these petitions this date seems reasonable, and for SC 8/346/E1393 seems very likely. However, the dating of this petition seems to be to 1308-c. 1320 because inquisitions post mortem for this property were ordered on 1 May 1308 (CIPM V, no.31), on the death of Hugh Gerounde (his heir being his 9 year old son John), and on 15 May 1322 (CIPM, VI, no. 296) on John's death (his heirs being his two infant daughters). This would seem to date it to between 1308 and John's majority in c. 1320. It is unclear whether this petition is a stray petition amongst petitions which are the remains of a file dating to c. 1324, or whether this group should be redated individually.
Related material

For another petition that was probably part of an original file with this petition, see SC 8/346/E1399

For a letter that was probably part of an original file with this petition, see SC 8/346/E1394

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. III, Edw II, 1319-1327, (Public Record Office, 1913), pp.129, 198, 349 (two orders to the escheator beyond the Trent to take into the king's hand the land of John Gerounde (Edrounde), and a grant of a different hundred in Leicestershire to the petitioner)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736820/

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