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Petitioners

Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham.

Name(s)

de Beaumont, Louis

Addressees

King and council

Occupation

Bishop of Durham

Nature of request

The bishop shows that he seized the manor of Felling because of Selby's adherence to the Scots as his rights in his liberty allow, and held it until the king gave it to Epplingdon, and he was ousted. He requests remedy and justice be done to him.

Nature of endorsement

Let the charters be viewed and the parties summoned. The king is to be advised on what is found.

Places mentioned

Felling, [County Durham]

Durham diocese.

People mentioned

Walter de Selby

Robert de Bruys (Bruce, Brus)

Robert [I, King of Scotland]

Ralph de Epplynden (Epplingdon).

For a related petition by Epplingdon concerning the services rendered for the manor SC 8/8/393

For a later petition by Selby concerning his failure to have the manor restored SC 8/8/394

For a later petition concerning the same manor, see SC 8/47/2305

For a later petition from the bishop, refusing to return Selby's lands to him, see SC 8/43/2121

For a related petition from Walter de Selby, see SC 8/74/3660

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.335 (grant of the manor of Felling to Epplingdon)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.249-250, no.184 (full edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.431 (no.2) (edition of later copy of later related petition)