Baldwin de Spinallo (Despynall, de Spynale), Prior of Lapley. de Spinallo (Despynall,...

Petitioners

Baldwin de Spinallo (Despynall, de Spynale), Prior of Lapley.

Name(s)

de Spinallo (Despynall, de Spynale), Baldwin

Addressees

King and Council.

Occupation

Prior of Lapley

Nature of request

The Prior requests remedy on a number of connected issued.1) He states that Shareshulle and others broke into the abbey, stealing a variety of goods and muniments. He sued a writ in chancery, and Alton and others were ordered to enquire into the matter. They found that the complaint was true, and that Shareshulle and his comapnions should pay damages to the value of 110 marks, for which they have been indicted.2) He complains that, when the priory was in the king's hands, Shareshulle went to the bishop of Chichester and asked for the wardship of the priory along with Gobert de Lapyon, and as a result the prior was ousted from his house. Shareshulle then neglected the priory, to its great destruction, destroying the mill and cutting down the woods. Robert was made proctor of the monks of St Remi, and brought false cases against the prior.3) He states that Sharesulle had not paid sums owed for his time as keeper of the priory, and for this reason the people of Northamptonshire took goods worth £10 from the prior's estates in compensation for these unpaid debts.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Lapley, [Staffordshire]

Staffordshire

Reims, [Champagne, France]

France

Northamptonshire.

People mentioned

Robert de Shareshulle

Sheriff of Staffordshire

Thomas de Alton

Roger Trowym

[Robert Stratford], Bishop of Chichester, formerly Chancellor of England

Gobert de Lapyon (Lappion), monk of St Remi, Reims.

For an earlier related petition from this petitioner see SC 8/45/2235