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Richard Forde (Ford), vicar of Sparsholt Forde (Ford) Richard King and council vicar...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/47/2326
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/47/2326
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1365]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard Forde (Ford), vicar of Sparsholt
- Name(s)
- Forde (Ford), Richard
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- vicar of Sparsholt
- Nature of request
- Richard Forde, vicar of Sparsholt near Wantage, states that eleven years ago and more he began to sue in the court of Rome, to have recovery of certain tithes belonging to his church which had been taken away by Henry, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, to which college his church is appropriated. In the meantime, by malicious procurement of the parties, Richard was summoned by the king's letter before the king's council to show his right, and when he came and appeared before John atte Lee, then Steward, the Steward ordered him to withdraw his plea, threatening him with prison if he did not, and they made him make a bond for £100 to the Queen, against his will, that he would do this, to his great ruin. He asks that he might be reinstated in the estate in which he was in his plea before he was forced to renounce it, and to repeal the bond.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Sparsholt, [Berkshire]
- Wantynge (Wantage), [Berkshire]
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
- People mentioned
- Henry [Whitfield], Provost of Queen's College, Oxford
- John atte Lee (Attlee), King's Steward
- [Philippa of Hainault], Queen of England
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The bond acknowledged in CCR 1364-8 p.175 is dated at Westminster, 16 May, 39 Edward III (1365), and the acknowledgment is dated 19 May. It is to be paid at the following Michaelmas, which would suggest that the petition was made before, or at the latest shortly after, the bond was due. All this makes the assumption that the petitioner is the same as Richard Wulfrycheston: it is just possible that he was a predecessor or successor of Richard, also making a bond to Queen Philippa - but this is unlikely.John Richard Magrath, The Queen's College, 2 vols (Oxford, 1921) says that Henry Whitfield presented a bill for expenses on his journey to the papal curia to deal with this business in 1363-4, and that the college found Richard de Wulfrycheston as vicar at Sparsholt when the rectory was made over to them by Robert Achard between 1342 and 1345 (vol. I, p.105).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 3336
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XII, 1364-1368, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.175 (bond of £100 to Queen Philippa, made by Richard Wulfrycheston, vicar of Sparsholt)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062537/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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