John Bussh (Bush), canon of York Minster and prebendary of Stillington. Bussh (Bush)...

Petitioners

John Bussh (Bush), canon of York Minster and prebendary of Stillington.

Name(s)

Bussh (Bush), John

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

canon of York Minster and prebendary of Stillington

Nature of request

John Bush, canon of York and prebendary of Stillington, states that it is well known that his predecessors as prebendaries of Stillington, and the people of the prebend, have enjoyed certain rights in the Forest of Galtres from time immemorial. But now, the ministers of the forest are amercing and distraining him and the people of the prebend for these rights, and are preventing them from exercising them, to the harm of the franchise of York Minster, and to the disinheritance of the prebendary and the prebend. He requests grace and a remedy, and a writ to the Justice of the Forest on this matter.

Nature of endorsement

Robert de Clifford, Justice of the Forest is to be ordered by writ of Chancery to desist, and to order his ministers to desist, from these molestations, hindrances and disturbances, and to allow the aforesaid prebendary to use his right of common pasture, as has been said, to cut down his wood, and to agist pigs in his woods and receive pannage there, and also to use paths everywhere in the aforesaid forest, for himself and his people, freely and without impediment, as his predecessors used to have, use and do from ancient times. And he is so to conduct himself in the aforesaid that no complaint in his default comes to again to the King about the aforesaid.

Places mentioned

York

Stillington, [North Riding of Yorkshire]

Forest of Galtres, [North Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Robert de Clifford, Justice of the Forest.

For a related document, see SC 8/190/9500

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/37/1821

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/95/4731

For a related petition, see SC 8/190/9499

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.227 (instructions to induct the petitioner into the prebend of Stillington)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.337 (grant of this prebend to John de Hothum)