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Petitioners

Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham.

Name(s)

de Beaumont, Louis

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Bishop of Durham

Nature of request

The Bishop of Durham states that John de Eure died at Bishop Auckland in his diocese, and that he has the right of sequestration of the goods and chattels of those who die there, as ordinary of the place, until their testaments are proved, Richard de Emeldon, keeper of the contrariants' lands in the bishopric of Durham, has seized his goods and chattels within the diocese into the king's hand, without cause. He requests that the king order Richard to remove his hand and to allow the bishop to do what belongs to him as ordinary of the place.

Nature of endorsement

As John de Eure died within the Bishop of Durham's franchise, the Bishop is to be ordered to enquire into how he died, and, if he was killed, then by whom and how. And the king is to be informed and justice done in Chancery.Afterwards it was found on the certification of the Bishop of Durham, and by an inquisition held on this by the Bishop at the suit of Peter de Vernon, parson of the church of Stokesley, through another petition made and returned in chancery, that John de Eure was killed at Bishop Auckland, within the Bishop's liberty, by certain malefactors, while he was in the king's peace and fealty. Therefore Richard de Emeldon is to be ordered to remove the king's hand from those goods and chattels of John's which he had seized into the king's hand, and to let the Bishop do what pertains to his office without impediment.

Places mentioned

Aukeland (Bishop Auckland), [County Durham]

Stokesleye (Stokesley), [North Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

John de Eure

Richard de Emeldon, keeper of the contrariants' lands in the bishopric of Durham

Peter de Vernon, parson of Stokesley.

For a related petition see SC 8/6/274

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.474 (orders to Richard de Emeldon to remove the king's hand)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.253-5 (no.188) (related petition, mentioned in endorsement)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.403b-404a, no.96 (full edition of original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl. vol. I, pp.387-415, no.96 (summary of references)