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John of Fordham, Prior of Thetford and Richard de Dunton, Prior of Bermondsey. Fordham;...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/143/7133

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Reference
SC 8/143/7133
Date
[1390]
Description
Petitioners
John of Fordham, Prior of Thetford and Richard de Dunton, Prior of Bermondsey.
Name(s)
Fordham; de Dunton, John; Richard
Addressees
King.
Occupation
Prior of Thetford; Prior of Bermondsey
Nature of request
The Prior of Thetford and the Prior of Bermondsey state that the recent ordinance that all French in England should leave the realm had made an exception for conventual religious, for term of their lives, and that provision had been made for the visitation of houses of the Cluniac order by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Priors of Thetford and Bermondsey, as these houses are outwith any Episcopal jurisdiction. The Priors now ask permission to make such a visitation.
Nature of endorsement
It is agreed that the supplicants may exercise the jurisdiction granted to them by the Holy Father during the schism as the Abbot of Cluny and the Prior of La Charité would duly have done if there had been no schism, saving always to the King and to the other founders and patrons of the alien and denizen priories and houses, their inheritances, rights, patronages and advowsons in them.
Places mentioned
Thetford, [Norfolk]
Bermondsey, [Surrey]
France
Cluny, [Burgundy, France]
(La) Charité-sur-Loire, [Burgundy, France].
People mentioned
Abbot of Cluny
Prior of La Charité(Charité-sur-Loire)
[Boniface IX], Pope.
Note
CPR 1388-92 pp.333-334 is dated 26 November 1390, and appears to be in response to this petition. Cluny and La Charité were the parent houses of Thetford and Bermondsey respectively.
Related material

For transcript, see no.54 of PRO 31/7/111

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), pp.333-334 (licence for the Priors and Archbishop to exercise jurisdiction over persons and places of the Cluniac order)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209314/

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