Geoffrey de Langton, Clerk and Parliamentary Proctor for the clergy of the diocese...

Petitioners

Geoffrey de Langton, Clerk and Parliamentary Proctor for the clergy of the diocese of York.

Name(s)

de Langton, Geoffrey

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Clerk and Parliamentary Proctor for the clergy of the diocese of York

Nature of request

The petitioner seeks the king's intervention on his behalf to preserve the laws of Holy Church and his own [the king's] laws against the malice of William Carles. He shows that he was advocate for Henry de Torbok and in conflict with Carles in a case pertinent to the jurisdiction of Holy Church, still pending before the bishop of Chester. And now Carles (to harm the petitioner by malice and to make war on his client) has bought a writ of capias against him under a bill granted in king's bench to the hindrance of the execution of the petitioner's office in parliament. The petitioner asks the king to order his justices to take no action in the said capias during the present parliament (as in another similar case) and also to appoint other of his English bishops and justices to hear the case.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

York diocese.

People mentioned

Henry de Torbok

William Carles.

For a related petition see SC 8/261/13002

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XIV, 1367-1370, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.85 (protection granted during session of parliament)
• Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. V, Edw III, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LXXVI, 1958), p.cxxviii (entry g) (full edition of petition)