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Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham. de Beaumont Louis King and council. Bishop of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/108/5385

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Reference
SC 8/108/5385
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham.
Name(s)
de Beaumont, Louis
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Bishop of Durham
Nature of request
[Petition concerning the bishop's rights in County Durham, faded and almost entirely illegible.]
Nature of endorsement
Let it come before the council in parliament.[Decision made in parliament upon the petition.]
Places mentioned
County Durham.
People mentioned
Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham.
Note
The petition is indecipherable, but enough of the endorsement survives to allow identification with the version of the petition in an enrolment published in Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined., pp. 111-113, dating from the parliament of 1327.
Related material

For transcript, see no.9B of PRO 31/7/100

For a related petition see SC 8/158/7878

For a related document see SC 8/108/5384

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2917
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp.111-113 (version of petition on a roll made in the parliament of 1327)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149957/

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