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? petitioner name(s) illegible Copy of a writ to the sheriff of York reciting that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/11/543B

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Reference
SC 8/11/543B
Date
1339
Description
Petitioners
? petitioner name(s) illegible
Nature of request
Copy of a writ to the sheriff of York reciting that Woodhouse failed to prosecute his suit which he arraigned in an assize of darreign presentment against the prior of Pontefract for the advowson of the church of St Sampson of York whereby the prior recovered the advowson. Because there was a doubt of collusion between them an inquiry was held which found no collusion and that the prior had no right to the advowson by which it was taken into the king's hand. The archdeacon has requested the return of the advowson so that the king wishing to be certified of whether Woodhouse or his predecessors were seised of the advowson, its value and other matters concerning it, and has appointed Adleburgh, Basset and Parvyng to inquire by oath of a jury into the same. The sheriff is to empanel a jury of upright and law-worthy men of his bailiwick by which the truth can be better known.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
York
Berkhamsted, [Hertfordshire].
People mentioned
Edward III, King of England
[Ralph de Hastings], sheriff of Yorkshire
Robert de Wodehous (Woodhouse), archdeacon of Richmond
prior of Pontefract
Richard de [Aldeburgh (Aldborough)]
William Basset
Robert Parvyng (Parving)
Edward [of Windsor], Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester.
Note
The writ is dated to 1339 with SC 8/11/543A, the petition with which it was enclosed. The writ can be dated by its dating clause to 7 July 1339, a date confirmed by the patent roll enrolment of a related writ, and a copy of that same writ (CPR 1338-40, p.354-5; SC 8/11/543D).
Related material

The petition relating to this document is SC 8/11/543A

A further related document originally bound together with this document is is SC 8/11/543C

A further related document originally bound together with this document is SC 8/11/543D

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8936
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060671/

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