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Hugh de Mohaut (Mouhaut), Master of Kepier Hospital near Durham. de Mohaut (Mouhaut)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/62/3072

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This record is about the Hugh de Mohaut (Mouhaut), Master of Kepier Hospital near Durham. de Mohaut (Mouhaut)... dating from [1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/62/3072
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
Hugh de Mohaut (Mouhaut), Master of Kepier Hospital near Durham.
Name(s)
de Mohaut (Mouhaut), Hugh
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Master of Kepier Hospital near Durham
Nature of request
Mohaut request that he is able to be restored to his possession since he was ousted without award or judgement from his position of master of Kepier Hospital. Mohaut was collated to the position of master by the bishop of Durham, but Eycot came and claimed the king's collation to the hospital on the supposition that the office was void, and ejected him and wrongfully wasted and destroyed his goods.
Nature of endorsement
He should have a writ of Chancery to make the clerk of the king come before the king at a certain day, and in the same place let justice be done to the parties.
Places mentioned
Durham, [County Durham].
People mentioned
Simon de Eycot of the king's household.
Note
The petition dates to 1320 as it was answered with the restoration of Mohaut to the custody of the hospital (CPR 1317-21, p.529).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5761
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.529 (restitution of the custody of the hospital to Mohaut)
  • Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.32 (transcript of damaged copy of this petition on parliament roll)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.189-90 (no.141) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106835/

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