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Petitioners

Richard Kellaw, bishop of Durham.

Name(s)

Kellaw, Richard

Addressees

King and council

Occupation

bishop of Durham

Nature of request

The bishop requests that the king preserve his franchise of the church of Durham, and lift his hand from those lands of Hart and Hartness, and Barnard Castle and Gainford that were seized into the king's hand by Clitherhoe and Irreis, although by the bishop's franchise no royal officers or escheators might enter the franchise to seize lands, or perform other offices.1)

Nature of endorsement

Clitherhoe and Irreis are ordered by a writ of the king that they personally appear before the king's council at Westminster in the octave of Holy Trinity to inform the council on the matters referred to in the petition, and if they are not able to come personally then they are to inform the king of the reason for their entry into the liberty with the all the circumstances concerning the king's rights in the same.2) The bishop appoints in his place Elmdon, Hosebrigg, and Brunte to pursue this petition and his other petitions before the king and his council, and to respond to the answers.3) Before the king's council at Westminster in the quindene of Easter.4) Before the great council.

Places mentioned

River Tyne

Teyse (River Tees)

Norhamshire, [Northumberland]

Bedlingtonshire, [Northumberland]

Hart, [Co. Durham]

Hartness, [Co. Durham]

Chastel Bernard (Barnard Castle), [Co. Durham]

Gainford, [Co. Durham]

People mentioned

Robert de Cliderhow (Clitheroe), escheator north of the Trent

John le Irreis (Irish)

William de Elmeden (Elmdon)

William de Hosebrigg'

John de Brunte (Brunt).

For an account of actions in response to SC 8/3/120B, see SC 8/3/120C

For a later related petition, see SC 8/44/2166

For a writ resulting from the petition with response endorsed, see SC 8/3/120D

For a copy of Henry III's charter concerning the manor of Greatham, formerly attached to SC 8/149/7437, see SC 8/149/7438

For transcript, see no.10 of PRO 31/7/100

For another petition concerning Hart, see SC 8/46/2257

For another petition by the petitioner's executors on the same matter, see SC 8/318/E344

For a related petition, see SC 8/44/2168

For a commission relating to SC 8/3/120D, see SC 8/3/120E

For the writ resulting from the petition, see SC 8/3/120B

• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), p.245 (no. 180) (full calendar of petition)
• Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense, vol. III: The Register of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, 1314-1316 , Ed. T.D. Hardy, (Rolls Series, vol. LXII part 3, 1875), pp.1-9 (transcription of identical entry found in Rot. Parl., vol I, pp.362a-364b)
• Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense, vol. IV: The Register of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, 1314-1316 , Ed. T.D. Hardy, (Rolls Series, vol. LXII part 4, 1875), pp.129-139 (transcription of identical entry found in Rot. Parl., vol I, pp.362a-364b) & pp.183-85 (transcription of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.362a-364b (no.9) (transcription of duplicate petition and legal process on parliament roll)