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Proctor of William de Weston. [King and council]. Proctor of William de Weston. The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/77/3840
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This record is about the Proctor of William de Weston. [King and council]. Proctor of William de Weston. The... dating from 1325 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/77/3840
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1325
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Proctor of William de Weston.
- Addressees
- [King and council].
- Occupation
- Proctor of William de Weston.
- Nature of request
- The proctor of William de Weston states that when the King sent his master as an envoy to Spain, he took him and all his possessions, and especially his prebend of Leighton Buzzard into his protection, and that he, the proctor, fearing that some disturbance would be made in this prebend, delivered a petition to the present parliament: but that while that petition was pending, the Sheriff of Bedfordshire came with a great number of men from the county, chosen to go to Gascony, with a warrant ordering that all lay force in the church which prevented the Bishop of Lincoln from exercising his spiritual authority there should be ousted, and expelled his master from possession of the prebend: in despite of the King and although the Bishop of Lincoln did not come there to exercise any spiritual office. He requests a remedy in this parliament, so that his lord's absence abroad might not harm him.
- Nature of endorsement
- Before the King (coram rege), because it touches the royal right.Because the instructions our lord the King gave the sheriff to oust lay force were made on the information of the Bishop, as is usual, he is to sue to recover his possession as seems best to him to be done, according to law and reason. And if he believes that he has been disseised or that some other trespass has been done to him, he is to come to Chancery and sue there at common law.
- Places mentioned
- [Spain]
- Leighton Buzzard, [Bedfordshire]
- Gascony, [France]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- William de Weston
- [Henry Burghersh], Bishop of Lincoln.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The writ to oust lay force from Leighton Buzzard is dated 25 June 18 Edward II (1325), and this happened in the course of the parliament at which this petition was presented, which must therefore have been the one of June 1325.CPR 1324-7 p.90 is dated 14 February 1325.CCR 1323-7 p.417 is dated 28 October 1325.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For an abbreviated version of this petition, see SC 8/77/3841
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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 8857
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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)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.417 (order to account with William de Weston for his expenses while in Spain, between 15 February and 27 August 1325)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. V, 1324-1327, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.90 (protection for William de Weston, going to Spain on the King's business)
- The Functions of the Medieval Parliament of England, G.O. Sayles, (Hambledon Press, 1988), pp.373-374 (no. ii) (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107614/
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