Walter de Selby. de Selby Walter King. Walter de Selby states that he has delivered...

Petitioners

Walter de Selby.

Name(s)

de Selby, Walter

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Walter de Selby states that he has delivered various writs (a transcript of which is sewn to this petition) to the bishop of Durham and to his predecessor, to deliver to him his lands within the bishop's franchise of Durham; but the bishop has not done anything, because Thomas Surtees holds these lands of the gift of Louis, formerly bishop of Durham, predecessor of the current bishop. He asks the king to consider the fact that he is on his service in Scotland, and to order the bishop to take the lands into his hand and to deliver them to Walter.

Nature of endorsement

A writ is to be sent again to the bishop, that he should have the lands delivered according to the other command, or to give the reason why he ought not to do this; and a process is further to be continued.

Places mentioned

Liberty of Durham.

People mentioned

[Richard de Bury] bishop of Durham

Louis [de Beaumont], formerly bishop of Durham

Thomas Surteys (Surtees).

For a petition from Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham, refusing to re-deliver his lands to Walter de Selby, see SC 8/43/2121

For an earlier petition concerning the same lands see SC 8/8/393

For a related petition from Walter de Selby, see SC 8/74/3660

• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), pp.219-220 (no.880) (inquisition into lands held by Walter de Selby of the Prior of Durham, the result of an earlier petition)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.240 (inspeximus and confirmation of confirmation by prior and convent of Durham of grant by bishop of Durham of manor of Felling to Americus de Trew, and of his grant of it to Thomas Surteyse)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.265-266 (no. 197) (full edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.431, no. 2 (edition of later copy of earlier petition from Prior of Durham concerning the same lands)