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? No Petitioner named Licence for Peter Vaurelli to prosecute in ecclesiastical court,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/502

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Licence for Peter Vaurelli to prosecute in ecclesiastical court,... dating from [1328-1329] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/11/502
Date
[1328-1329]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Licence for Peter Vaurelli to prosecute in ecclesiastical court, not withstanding the king's presentation of Cotes to the church of Fishlake, the king's recovery of the advowson from the prior of Lewes, and the king's prohibition against such prosecutions, and the pope's provision of him to the church of Fishlake.
Nature of endorsement
It seems to the council that the prohibitions made in aid of the judgements rightly rendered in the court of the king should be maintained, and are not revocable, and that the writ made contrary to this is revocable [response to SC 8/11/503].
Places mentioned
Fishlake, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
Clipston, [Nottinghamshire]
People mentioned
Edward III, King of England
Geoffrey de Cotes
Adam, then Prior of Lewes
William [Melton], Archbishop of York
John de Warenne, earl of Surrey
Peter Vaurelli, king's clerk
Note
The licence is dated to 1328-1329 with the petition with which it is enclosed (SC 8/11/503). The licence itself is dated by its dating clause to 25 August 1328.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/256/12798

For the petition to which this licence was formerly appended see SC 8/11/503

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1344
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.123 (king's presentation of Cotes) & p.228 (order to sheriffs to arrest Vaurelli) & p.252 (king's prohibition of proceedings) & p.315 (licence for Vaurelli to proceed) & p.324 (order to supercede Vaurelli's arrest) & p.453 (grant of protection to Vaurelli)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.20a (no.19) (another petition by the same petitioner) & pp.45a-46b (no.62) (another petition by the same petitioner, with judicial process) & p.46a-b (no.62) (recited as part of judicial process)
  • 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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 13-30, no. 19 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060629/

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