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Baldwin de Spynale (Despynall), Prior of Lapley. de Spynale (Despynall) Baldwin King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/72/3568

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Reference
SC 8/72/3568
Date
[1335]
Description
Petitioners
Baldwin de Spynale (Despynall), Prior of Lapley.
Name(s)
de Spynale (Despynall), Baldwin
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Prior of Lapley
Nature of request
Spynale requests that the king assign him a certain place amongst men of religion where he is able to receive maintenance until he is restored to his house and can live from its profits. He further requests remedy against the maintenance and confederacy of Shareshull and others who have ejected him from his house, and carried away his goods and chattels despite being lawfully presented and instituted, as this is not able to be done without a special command of the king.
Nature of endorsement
Let good people be assigned to hear and determine the complaints contained in this petition, and also the bishop of Chester is to be requested to provide sustenance for the prior in a place within his diocese.
Places mentioned
Lapley, [Staffordshire]
Reims, [Champagne, France]
Lapyon (Lappion), [Champagne, France].
People mentioned
Abbot of St Remi, Reims
Bishop of Chester (Coventry and Lichfield)
Earl of Chester
Cuthbert de Lapyon (Lappion)
John Large
Robert de Shareshull
Adam [de Shareshull], brother of Robert de Shareshull
Ralph de Barton
John de K. . .lworth
Adam Bigot
John Fynel
Thomas Scot
Gerard atte Grene
Robert Nowel
Robert, servant of Cuberd de Lapyon
Gerard, clerk of Cuberd de Lapyon.
Note
The petition dates to 1335 when a commission of oyer et terminer was issued on the matter (CPR 1334-8, p.145).
Related material

A related petition is SC 8/123/6114

For a petition by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/45/2235

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7284
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.145 (commission of oyer and terminer concerning Spynale's complaints)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107342/

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