Geoffrey de Cotes, parson of the church of Fishlake. de Cotes Geoffrey King and council....

Petitioners

Geoffrey de Cotes, parson of the church of Fishlake.

Name(s)

de Cotes, Geoffrey

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

parson of the church of Fishlake

Nature of request

Cotes shows that he had been presented to Fishlake by the king, and this had been challenged in the court in Rome by Vaurelli, who had obtained a provision from the pope. Vaurelli eventually obtained a writ of Chancery allowing him to proceed, despite Cotes having appeared before the king's council at the last parliament at Northampton and obtained a prohibition. Vaurelli and the executors of the bull proceeded against him in court Christian by which Cotes was excommunicated because he did not wish to be deprived of the church. Cotes requests that he has a writ of Chancery to the executors of a papal bull concerning the pope's presentation of Vaurelli to the church of Fishlake to revoke the sentence made on Cotes in court Christian and the process which they made in prejudice of the king and his crown, and that judgements rendered in his court are not annulled in a manner not in use in the times of the king's predecessors.

Nature of endorsement

The [rolls] of Chancery are to be seen, and the tenor of the patent of which the petition makes mention is to be brought before the council.

Places mentioned

Fishlake, [West Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

[William Melton], Archbishop of York

[Adam of Winchester], prior of Lewes

Peter de Vaurell (Vaurelli), clerk.

For the licence formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/11/502

For a related petition see SC 8/256/12798

• 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) & 45a-46b (no. 62) (another petition by the same petitioner, with 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)