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Robert Busse, Prior of Montacute Busse Robert Chancellor Prior of Montacute Busse...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/37/1834

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Reference
SC 8/37/1834
Date
[1327-1328]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Busse, Prior of Montacute
Name(s)
Busse, Robert
Addressees
Chancellor
Occupation
Prior of Montacute
Nature of request
Busse requests remedy in his dispute over the office of prior of Montacute. He has been appointed by the pope, but Caprarii has entered the office at the gift of the abbot of Cluny.
Nature of endorsement
Because the prohibition ought not to apply except to the time before which the king has cognisance, he should have a writ for all that he should wish. Notwithstanding the prohibition he should be able to sue in court Christian where he wishes of all things that touch the [spiritualities] . . . that nothing be attempted or done concerning the temporalities in prejudice of the king.
Places mentioned
Montacute, [Somerset]
Cluny, [Burgundy, France]
Bath and Wells diocese
People mentioned
John Caprarii (Cheverer), late prior of Montacute
Abbot of Cluny
Gwychard (Guichard) de Jou (Iou), Prior of Montacute
Note
Datable to 1327-8 on the basis of references in Heads of Religious Houses, England and Wales, 1216-1377, pp. 239-40.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1294
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062036/

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