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John de Helewell, parson of the church of Rowley. de Helewell John King. parson of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/12/599

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Reference
SC 8/12/599
Date
[1348]
Description
Petitioners
John de Helewell, parson of the church of Rowley.
Name(s)
de Helewell, John
Addressees
King.
Occupation
parson of the church of Rowley
Nature of request
Helewell shows that the king sued by a writ quare impedit against Thomas Wake for the church of Rowley, and recovered his presentment to the same by a plea and judgement rendered in common bench for a vacancy in the time of Edward II against his grant and statute. He requests that the king has regard for the grant and statute, and that the church was full a year before the making of the statute, and that he not be ousted from the church by judgement rendered upon the title if it is expressly against the intention of the statute, and that the king ratify his estate, that he be able to peaceably keep the church notwithstanding the judgement rendered on the title against the grant and statute of the king.
Nature of endorsement
Coram ipso rege.
Places mentioned
Roule (Rowley), [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
Thomas Wake of Liddel.
Note
Presumably dating to one of the two parliaments of 1348: see discussion in PROME, parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 13.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3992
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.177b (no.9) (full edition of a later copy of 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), Parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 13 (summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060738/

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