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? No Petitioner named Writ of Richard II to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/121/6029B

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Writ of Richard II to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield,... dating from 1393 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/121/6029B
Date
1393
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of Richard II to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, granting him power to receive the attorneys of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield who will be attending the forthcoming Parliament in respect of their case against the Prior of Newport Pagnell. The bishop is ordered to inform the king of the names of those attorneys by return of writ.
Nature of endorsement
For the Chancellor.I, the aforesaid bishop Richard, have received the attorneys of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, namely Master John Oudeby, Master John de Sutton, Master Nicholas Bubbewyth, Canon of Lichfield, and Master John Rome, clerk, appointed to swear and assign before the lord king in his Parliament at the forthcoming quindene of Hilary concerning the errors in the record, process and judgment of the said Dean and Chapter mentioned in this writ.
Places mentioned
Lichfield, [Staffordshire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
Richard [II], King of England
[Richard le Scrope], Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
Dean and Chapter of Lichfield
[John Drieu], Prior of Newport Pagnell
[William de Pakinton], former Dean of Lichfield
[Thomas de Stretton], Dean of Lichfield
John Oudeby
John de Sutton
Nicholas Bubbewyth, Canon of Lichfield
John Rome, clerk.
Note
Dated in the dating clause to 1 December 1393.
Related material

For a later document on this issue see C 44/25/19

For an earlier version of that petition see SC 8/122/6053

For a related writ see SC 8/121/6029C

For the petition with which this writ was associated see SC 8/121/6029A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5026;Transferred on 4 February 1924 from C 47/14/3
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.315a (edition of enrolled copy of associated petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208196/

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