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Lewis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham. de Beaumont Lewis King and council. Chastiel...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/345

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Reference
SC 8/7/345
Date
[1324-1325]
Description
Petitioners
Lewis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham.
Name(s)
de Beaumont, Lewis
Addressees
King and council.
Places mentioned
Chastiel Bernard (Bernard Castle), [County Durham]
Hart, [County Durham]
Simonburn, [Northumberland]
Tynedale, [Northumberland].
Nature of request
Lewis, Bishop of Durham, states that he has previously petitioned parliament asking the king to do justice to him on the matter of the manors of Barnard Castle and Hart, and other lands in the bishopric of Durham forfeited in the war, and concerning the church of Simonburn and £50 of land in Tynedale, but that these petitions have remained unanswered. He requests that these petitions be answered and justice done to him.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege. At the next parliament.
Note
Date given on the evidence of Rot. Parl. vol. I, 418b, no. 8. JRS Phillips (PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337) says that these petitions probably all do belong to 18 Edward II, although there is no indication that they were presented either at the non-parliamentary assembly of October 1324 or the parliament of June 1325.
Related material

A related petition is SC 8/259/12949

Another petition about Hart is SC 8/46/2257

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2803
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), p.255 (no.189) (calendar of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.418b, no. 8 (full edition of a later copy of the 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. 416-429, no. 8 (summary of references)
Record URL
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