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Walter de Totyngtone (Tottington), monk of Bury St Edmunds. de Totyngtone (Tottington)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/20/984

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Reference
SC 8/20/984
Date
[1385]
Description
Petitioners
Walter de Totyngtone (Tottington), monk of Bury St Edmunds.
Name(s)
de Totyngtone (Tottington), Walter
Addressees
King and council in parliament.
Occupation
monk of Bury St Edmunds
Nature of request
Walter de Totyngtone, monk of Bury St Edmunds requests exemption from liability to any proceedings that may ensue as a result of the burning, during the insurrection (of 1381), of records relating to his indictment in the King's Bench concerning a papal provision.
Nature of endorsement
The king has granted the supplicant a charter of pardon for all things contained in the indictment of which this petition makes mention, concerning the matter of the pope's appointee.
Places mentioned
Bury (Bury St Edmunds), [Suffolk]
Hennow (Henhowe Heath), [Suffolk].
People mentioned
John de Cavendissh (Cavendish)
Edmund Heryng (Herring), officer of the King's Bench.
Note
Securely dated to the parliament of October-December 1385 by reference to CPR 1385-9, p.100.
Related material

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/20/983

For transcript, see no.81 of PRO 31/7/109

Another petition concerning the pope's appointee is SC 8/20/967

For a related petition, see SC 8/20/968

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8026
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.100 (pardon arising from the petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.178a (no.12) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061140/

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