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Claim of the priory St. Mary, Coventry (Warwickshire) to lands and liberties in Warwickshire....
Catalogue reference: E 135/2/20
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This record is about the Claim of the priory St. Mary, Coventry (Warwickshire) to lands and liberties in Warwickshire.... dating from 1378 in the series Exchequer: Miscellaneous Ecclesiastical Documents. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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E 135/2/20
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Date (When the record was created)
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1378
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Description (What the record is about)
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Claim of the priory St. Mary, Coventry (Warwickshire) to lands and liberties in Warwickshire.
1. Petition of the prior and convent to the King [Richard II] and his council requesting that his steward and ministers of the manor of Cheylesmore cease distraining their tenants of Walsgrave on Sowe, Attoxhall (lost), Whitley, Willenhall and Radford - Thomas de Langehurst, Thomas de Whiteleye, John Barbour and Agnes, his wife, Roger de Beech - to perform suit of court at the manor court of Cheylesmore, and to surrender to them the site and chapel of Spon End, which have been taken into the king's hands by legal process at the instigation of the ministers of the king's father [Edward of Woodstock] despite a grant to William, the then prior, by Roger Mohaut in 37 Henry III [1252-3] and their uninterrupted seisin of the chapel since that time. [Endorsed: Command to be made to William Skypewyth, justice of assize in Warwickshire, to certify the chancery concerning the contents of this bill, and to summon the king's steward of the manor of Cheylesmore to provide information as to the king's right.]
2. Transcript of a quo waranto plea in the eyre of John de Vaux, itinerant justice in Warwickshire, held in 13 Edward I [1284-5], into the manorial and judicial rights claimed by the prior of Coventry in the manors of Coventry, Honington, Wasperton, Packwood, Offchurch, Halloughton, Priors Marston, Priors Hardwick, Southam, Frankton, Cledfilingleye and Walsgrave on Sowe, and in the town of Coventry.
3. Writ, in pursuance of the petition above, from Richard II to William de Skippwyth and William de Burgh, justices of assize in Warwickshire, ordering them to inquire into this matter, certify the king as to the truth and to ensure justice be done. Westminster, 16 December 1378.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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SC 8/333/E1007, a like petition dated to 1375-6.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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French and Latin
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parchment membranes
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3 mm.
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Documents 1 & 3 are galled.
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Placita de quo warranto temporibus Edw. I. II. & III., pp. 778-9
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3408210/
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