Alan de Shutlyngden (Shitlington), clerk, late keeper of the hospital of Sherburn....

Petitioners

Alan de Shutlyngden (Shitlington), clerk, late keeper of the hospital of Sherburn.

Name(s)

de Shutlyngden (Shitlington), Alan

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

clerk, late keeper of the hospital of Sherburn

Nature of request

Shutlyngden requests remedy and the discovery of his right and to make discussion and summon the justices, sheriff and undersheriff and other ministers present at the inquest to be examined on oath about the truth of his removal from his position as keeper, and that he may have a verdict passed by the knights and better-informed of those parts . . . He was removed following an inquest made into the matter that consisted of men of little worth and knowledge brought to Newcastle by Heton and other enemies of Shutlyngden. He had the keeping by the grant of the present bishop but he was removed on the supposition that the hospital fell void and remained so until the temporalities came into the king's hands after the death of Bishop Bury though this was not the case.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Sherburn, [County Durham]

Northumberland

Antwerp, [Belgium]

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, [Northumberland].

People mentioned

[Thomas de Hatfield], Bishop of Durham

Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham

Thomas de Hessewell, Master of the Hospital of Sherburn

Thomas de Neville, Master of the Hospital of Sherburn

John de Whytchirch, Bishop's vicar general

Alan de Heton.

For an alternative version of this petition see SC 8/159/7949

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XIII, 1364-1367, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.226 (grant for life of the wardenship of the hospital to one Thomas de Bernolby)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.192-5 (no.144) (full edition of petition)