John de Crosseby (Crosby), clerk of Chancery. de Crosseby (Crosby) John King and...

Petitioners

John de Crosseby (Crosby), clerk of Chancery.

Name(s)

de Crosseby (Crosby), John

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

clerk of Chancery

Nature of request

John de Crosseby, clerk of Chancery, makes two requests:1) He states that since the King's father recovered the hospital of St Nicholas outside Carlise, which he holds, from the Bishop of Carlisle in the last Eyre of Cumberland, the Bishop has withheld the thraves of corn he should give the hospital for the sustenance of the poor there.2) He states that although the Bishop has no jurisdiction in the hospital, he is seizing the excuse of some tithes that it used to receive from one of the parishes of Carlisle to demand John's obedience, in prejudice to the King, and of his recovery of the hospital; and he is instituting sequestrations and other grievances. He requests a remedy, to maintain the King's right.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] With regard to the first: he is to have recourse to common law.With regard to the second: he is to have the writ of prohibition formulated for his case.[None on dorse.]

Places mentioned

Carlisle, [Cumberland]

Cumberland.

People mentioned

[Edward I], King of England

[John of Halton], Bishop of Carlisle.

For transcript, see no.18 of PRO 31/7/101

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/159/7918

For another petition possibly by the same petitioner, see SC 8/39/1949