Catalogue description Petitioners: Edmund Basset. Name(s): Basset, Edmund Addressees: King and...

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Details of SC 8/22/1072
Reference: SC 8/22/1072
Description:
Petitioners: Edmund Basset.
Name(s): Basset, Edmund
Addressees: King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request: Edmund Basset requests that the record and process of a plea between Edmund and King Richard II, concerning certain lands and tenements in Winford, Saltford, Dundry, Barrow Gurney, Backwell, Hazel, Rockhill, and Long Ashton in Somerset, and the advowson of the church of Winford, which resulted in the lands and tenements being seized into the king's hand, in which there are errors, be brought before the king and lords in parliament, and the errors corrected; and that justice further be done to him.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Wynflith (Winford), Somerset; Salford (Saltford), Somerset; Dondray (Dundry), Somerset; Barwe (Barrow Gurney), Somerset; Bakwell (Backwell), Somerset; Hasell (Hazel), Somerset; Rochell (Rockhill), Somerset; Asshton (Long Ashton), Somerset.
People mentioned: Richard II, King of England.
Note: The petition enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster at the octave of Hilary, 2 Henry IV (1401) (Rot. Parl. III pp.461a-464a) is either a related petition to this one, in which case it appears to come from the same stage of the proceedings, or a very free transcription of this one. In either case this petition would seem to be from around 1401.
Date: [c. 1401]
Related material:

For a related petition, see SC 8/232/11600

For a related letter of attorney, see SC 8/232/11599

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/232/11598

An earlier related petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/21/1039
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 715
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.289b (no.24), 303b-304a (no.19) (transcripts of other petitions of the same petitioner on the same matter) & pp.461a-464a (transcription of related petition on parliament roll, with response and judicial process arising from it)

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