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Petitioners

John Maundour, clerk.

Name(s)

Maundour, John

Addressees

King and lords of parliament.

Occupation

clerk

Nature of request

John Maundour states that after he was duly appointed Archdeacon of Durham by Thomas, Bishop of Durham, and was put in possession, the king, acting on untrue representations, gave the office of archdeacon to Cardinal Pilet who was lately in England, after the death of Bishop Thomas, sending his letters patent to the Archbishop of York to do this. The court of York gave John benefit of sanctuary and put him as fully in possession of the benefice as he was during the bishop's lifetime. Notwithstanding this, the cardinal's proctors and supporters procured commissions and writs to John, Lord Nevyll to collect the fruits of the benefice for the cardinal, without any process against John in the king's court or in court Christian. He requests that the commissions and writs be revoked, and that John might be reinstated as archdeacon.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Duresme (Durham), [County Durham].

People mentioned

Thomas [Hatfield], Bishop of Durham

Pileus de Prata, Cardinal [of St Praxedis]

John [Neville], Lord Nevyll (Neville).

For a related petition by the same petitioner is SC 8/126/6260

For transcript, see no.44 of PRO 31/7/108

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.73 (appointment of John, Lord Neville, to maintain Pileus, cardinal of St Praxedis, in possession of archdeaconry of Durham)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.349 (ratification of estate of John Maundour as archdeacon of Durham) & p.431 (grant of archdeaconry to Hugh Herle) & p.502 (similar grant)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.258b (enrolment on roll of parliament of prohibition, forbidding the petitioner from doing anything concerning the office of archdeacon of Durham in prejudice to the king or his laws and statutes, or in prejudice to the one to whom the king has given the office)