Catalogue description Petitioners: Beneyte (Benedicta) Choffyn of Guernsey. Name(s): Choffyn, Beneyte...

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Details of SC 8/278/13872
Reference: SC 8/278/13872
Description:
Petitioners: Beneyte (Benedicta) Choffyn of Guernsey.
Name(s): Choffyn, Beneyte (Benedicta)
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Chofyn requests pardon for the death of Owar, her husband, who she killed with a knife in self-defence when he was beating her. She then left the isle for Normandy.1)
Nature of endorsement: It is unworthy to grant grace in this case.2) This felony was shown to have been done [...] and outside the protection of the king. The king agrees that the bailiff should certify him of the matter at the parliament to be held at Michaelmas next.
Places mentioned: Guernsey, [Channel Islands]; Normandy, [France].
People mentioned: Peter Owar, husband of the petitioner.
Note: A pardon was issued to the petitioner for the death of her husband and her abjuration of the realm on 26 October 1302 (CPR 1301-7, p.69), probably just after the Michaelmas parliament mentioned in the endorsement.
Date: [1302]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.69 (pardon in accordance with this petition)

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