Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel and Surrey Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel and Surrey...

Petitioners

Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel and Surrey

Name(s)

Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Richard

Addressees

King and lords of parliament

Nature of request

Richard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, states that John Mautravers and John, Bishop of Bath and Wells, have conspired to present one Andrew Baret to the church of Yeovil, vacant after the death of Robert Sambourne, although the advowson of the church belongs to him. He asks that the kind and lords of parliament ordain a remedy, in salvation of his right.

Nature of endorsement

The matter of this petition was more fully debated in parliament and then shown to the king. Because it was attested that a plea is pending both in the King's court by writ of quare impedit, and in Court Christian before the Archbishop of Canterbury, and that this is not yet determined, it is ordained and assented, and willed by the king, that no prohibition or other command should be given to the archbishop or his commissaries to limit their actions in this case while the plea continues, notwithstanding that a plea is pending in the king's court; provided that this is not taken as an example in future.

Places mentioned

Yavele (Yeovil), [Somerset]

the diocese of Bath and Wells

People mentioned

Richard [Fitz Alan], Earl of Arundel and Surrey, father of petitioner

Robert Sambourne, clerk

John Mautravers

John [Harewell], Bishop of Bath and Wells

Andrew Baret

For an earlier petition relating to the living of the same church see SC 8/70/3491

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XVI, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.286 (revocation of king's presentation of William de Humberstan to the church of Yeovil, on petition by Robert de Sambourne, claiming to be parson of that church)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.68 (ratification of Andrew Baret as archdeacon of Wells)