? No Petitioner named Writ of Edward III to the Sheriffs of London requesting information...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

Writ of Edward III to the Sheriffs of London requesting information on why John Baynard, parson of the church of Colkirk, has been arrested and is being held in Newgate prison.

Nature of endorsement

Through the Bench.The John Baynard mentioned here has been captured and held in Newgate prison through a writ of the King, on information of the venerable father J, Archbishop of Canterbury, that he was excommunicated, whose transcript we send you, sewn to this writ; nevertheless a certain other writ has come to us, to deliver him, whose transcript we also send you. We have not released him because in the writ to capture him it is contained that he is excommunicated in a certain case of tithes, and in the other writ it is contained that a plea is pending between the lord King and master Henry de Iddesworth, Official of the Archbishop of Canterbury, concerning John's chattels and debts, which are not a matter of testimony or matrimony - as is more fully contained in the said writ - and he is held in prison for that reason and no other.

Places mentioned

Colkirk, [Norfolk]

London

Newgate prison, [London]

Westminster.

People mentioned

Edward [III], King of England

the Sheriffs of London

John Baynard, parson of the church of Colkirk

J[John Stratford], Archbishop of Canterbury

Henry de Iddesworth, Official of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

For the writ ordering the Sheriffs of London to release John Beynard, see SC 8/97/4824

For the writ to the Sheriffs of London ordering them to imprison John Baynard, see SC 8/97/4823

For the petition to which this writ was attached, see SC 8/97/4821