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Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham. de Bury Richard King and council Bishop of Durham...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/44/2152

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Reference
SC 8/44/2152
Date
[1337]
Description
Petitioners
Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham.
Name(s)
de Bury, Richard
Addressees
King and council
Occupation
Bishop of Durham
Nature of request
The bishop shows that within his liberty of Durham he has all royal jurisdiction and prerogative so that the king's ministers should not enter the liberty, now a new writ has been issued from Chancery to the bailiffs of Hartlepool within the franchise to search the port to prevent silver, money, vessels and plate being taken out of the realm, such silver being seized to the king's use. The bishop requests that the chancellor be ordered to revoke the order, and that he be able to have a writ to the bailiffs forbidding their action.
Nature of endorsement
Because in earlier times it was adjudged in parliament that the ministers of the king acting in royal office within the liberty were ousted, let the commission made under the great seal to make the search at Hartlepool be revoked, and let it be ordered by writs to the bishop that he assign certain people in the port to make the search.
Places mentioned
Fraunchise de Duresme (Liberty of Durham)
Hartlepool, [County Durham].
Note
The petition must date to 1337 for the letters of scrutiny to the bailiffs of Hartlepool were revoked upon the petition of the bishop on 25 March 1337 (CCR 1337-9, p.39).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2575
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1337-1339, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.39 (writ to the bailiffs revoking their letters of scrutiny)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.270-1 (calendar of petition)
  • Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense, vol. IV: The Register of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, 1314-1316 , Ed. T.D. Hardy, (Rolls Series, vol. LXII part 4, 1875), pp.264-5 (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062359/

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