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

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 his predecessor purchased the wapentake from Richard I to hold it as part of his liberty. Afterwards Henry III ordered John de Balliol to transfer his service to Bishop Robert. By an enrolment in the fine rolls the money paid by Balliol for castle guard at Newcastle has devolved upon the bishop so that he requests that the king have regard for his charters and confirmations acquitting him of such services, and he requests a writ to the treasurer and barons that he be acquitted of the sum according to the purport of his deeds.

Nature of endorsement

Let it be ordered by a writ containing the effect of the petition to the treasurer and barons that when they have viewed the charters and other evidences of the bishop, and heard his complaints and arguments , and searched the remembrances of the Exchequer and called to them the justices, if they find that the bishop ought to be discharged of the annual sum which is currently demanded of him then they should discharge him, and let the bishop have a respite of the sum until Christmas.

Places mentioned

Sadberge wapentake, [County Durham]

Franchise de Duresme (Liberty of Durham)

Neof Chastel sur Tyne (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), [Northumberland].

People mentioned

Hugh Pusat (Puiset), Bishop of Durham

Richard I, King of England

John, King of England

John de Balliol

Henry III, King of England

Robert, Bishop of Durham.

For copies of charters by Richard I and John formerly appended to this petition see SC 8/44/2157B

For a copy of a charter of Richard I formerly bound with this petition see SC 8/44/2157C

For a copy of the fine roll entry formerly appended with this see SC 8/44/2157D

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1337-1339, (Public Record Office, 1900), pp.39-40 (writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer in accordance with the endorsement of the petition)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.268-9 (no.199) (full 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.180-2 (full edition of petition)