Catalogue description Petitioners: Roger Docwra (Dockray), parson of Burton in Kendal and chaplain to the...

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Details of SC 8/229/11410
Reference: SC 8/229/11410
Description:
Petitioners: Roger Docwra (Dockray), parson of Burton in Kendal and chaplain to the duke of Gloucester.
Name(s): Docwra (Dockray), Roger
Addressees: King.
Occupation: parson of Burton in Kendal and chaplain to the duke of Gloucester
Nature of request: Docwra requests that the chancellor be directed to make writs for proclamations to be made throughout the county that the Bethum brothers appear in Chancery at a certain day to answer to the king and Docwra for the assault that they made on his parsonage with many armed men, and the goods that they carried away.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Burton in Kendal, Westmorland.
People mentioned: [Humphrey of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester; Thomas de Bethun; William de Bethum; Robert de Bethum; Robert Pen, chaplain of the petitioner; [John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford; Robert Crakanthorp (Crackenthorpe); John Brikryg.
Note: The petition is dated to 1416 as other petitions found in the following files that came from Chancery Files 548 date to 1416.
Date: [1416]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Chancery Files 548
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. IV, 1408-1413, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.118 (ratification of the petitioner in the estate of his church)

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