Richard de Tysho, parson of the church of Napton on the Hill. de Tysho Richard King...

Petitioners

Richard de Tysho, parson of the church of Napton on the Hill.

Name(s)

de Tysho, Richard

Addressees

King and council of parliament.

Occupation

parson of the church of Napton on the Hill

Nature of request

Richard de Tysho states that in a dispute between him and the Prior of Coventry concerning his church, the Prior, to deprive him of his benefices, is suing in the court of Rome, although the matter touches the King's regality and his crown. He asks that the Chancellor might be ordered to give him the letters patent previously made to him in this case, so that he might have permission to pursue his right of Holy Church, or that the Prior might be ordered to keep to the agreements previously made on this matter.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Napton on the Hill, [Warwickshire]

Coventry, [Warwickshire].

People mentioned

Prior of Coventry.

For transcript, see no.20 of PRO 31/7/109

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/75/3710

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1920), p.86 (writ of supersedeas, in favour of the petitioner, in a suit concerning the body of Joan de Radele)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.54 (notification that the King has superseded all proceedings before him in a suit concerning the body of Joan de Radele, as it has been decided in parliament that the matter is spiritual)