Dean and chapter of the church of St Peter, Exeter. King and council. The dean and...

Petitioners

Dean and chapter of the church of St Peter, Exeter.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The dean and chapter request remedy from the king so that they and their vicars are able to serve God in peace and without disturbance as they as they are pursued in the court of Rome and in the king's court concerning the disputed presentation to the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and they can do nothing without doing contempt to one or the other.

Nature of endorsement

He who holds the archdeaconry does not hold it of the king, and if de Cusance, who has the archdeaconry by the king's collation and with whom . . . was made, is dead, and the right of the king of the collation plainly executed, it seems to the council that the king ought not to meddle more in this business, and the process be stopped, and the prohibitions and attachments made upon it repealed, and he who is in possession should sue in court Christian if he wishes.

Places mentioned

Exeter, [Devon]

Cornwall

Rome, [Italy].

People mentioned

William de Cusance, Archdeacon of Cornwall

Nicholas de Neuton, Archdeacon of Cornwall

Thomas David, Archdeacon of Cornwall.

For a related document see SC 8/64/3151

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XI, 1360-1364, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.392 (prohibition concerning the collation)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XII, 1364-1368, (Public Record Office, 1910), pp.125-6 (order to Neuton not to use the king's letters and proceedings and to sue in the ecclesiastical court)
• Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland: Petitions to the Pope, vol. I: A.D. 1342-1419, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.320, 373-4 (subsequent papal collations and entry concerning other benefices held by the archdeacon)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XII, 1361-1364, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.185 (order to admit Neuton the the archdeaconry)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XIII, 1364-1367, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.78 (prohibition on the dean and chapter from doing anything to the king's prejudice)