Roger de Bankwell

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name = Roger de Bankwell


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birth_date = <1333Dictionary of National Biography now in the public domain]
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death_date = >1340Dictionary of National Biography now in the public domain]
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Roger de Bankwell (c. 1340), judge [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=lWLHPu-R_RgC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=%22roger+de+bankwell%22&source=web&ots=OVjunFA0Uf&sig=D4bjVnjWLjE5h2XvE8jiPHZG_n0#PPA193,M1 The origins of the English gentry By Peter R. Coss p.193] 2003. Accessed 30 November 2007] , perhaps of the same family as John de Bankwell, was one of three commissioners entrusted with the assessment of the tallage in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in 1333, and a member of another commission directed to inquire into the circumstances connected with a fire which had recently occurred at Spondon in Derbyshire, the sufferers by which prayed temporary exemption from taxation on account of their losses. He appears as a counsel in the Year book for 1340, in 1341 was appointed to a justiceship of the king's bench, and was one of those assigned to try petitions from Gascony, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and 'other foreign parts ' between the years 1341 and 1347.

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